Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factors--the desire to expand the College and financial pressures--may, in fact, limit deconversion to a few scattered suites. As the Programs puts it in another booklet, "The College has been growing steadily for generations. It would be a radical and untimely departure were this process now to come to a complete halt, particularly in view of the coming pressures from an increased population of college...
...other hand, as colleges face the "war-baby boom," one often hears the argument that Harvard, as a leader in American higher education, has a "responsibility to expand." Some point out that, as long as Houses are relieved of overcrowding to a tolerable degree, it will be possible to add new Houses, one by one, and expand the student body in this manner...
...Malenkov, "to conceal the failures under his direction," had "dishonestly" put out "humbug" figures purporting to show that the country had produced 145 million tons of grain, when in cold fact it had harvested no more than 100 million. Taking over, Nikita Khrushchev saw that the only way to expand production to feed an industrialized nation was to open vast new acreage in Siberia and offer Russia's collective farmers gaudy price incentives to boost their output. Having messed up Soviet agriculture earlier, said Khrushchev, the "reactionaries" of the anti-party group fought his every reform. "It hurts...
...Businessmen no longer run for the storm cellar at the inevitable williwaws of economic life, but continue to plan and expand for the long term...
...particular peeve is that science students must cram themselves with a classical language. "I'm not saying there aren't minds that don't expand with the classics," he said. "But all real advances in knowledge come from people who are doing what they like to do. We all know the effect on children of compulsory spinach and compulsory rhubarb; it's the same with compulsory learning. They say, 'It's spinach and to hell with...