Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boots out of the closet for the winter, the Harvard Ski Club will hold its first important winter meeting tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The 33 man Club, which includes an active ski meet team in its midst, is anxious to expand to its limit...
Where, then, is that cry, the cry for tutorial that is apparently there for the asking? The culprit is apathy--faculty apathy that blocks any planning for tutorial or any real effort to expand it, student apathy that keeps the pressure of opinion dormant. Until indifference is met and routed, the future of the tutorial system and the education that goes with it will remain discouragingly black...
December 1945 some $200 million had gone into G.M.'s inventories, which had swollen out of all proportion to production. Easy-to-get parts had piled up while G.M. waited for hard-to-get parts with which to make cars. Another $242 million had gone to reconvert and expand plant facilities. And G.M.'s stockholders had taken another big bite; dividends had totaled $70 million more than G.M. earned...
...rightly could and did say last week: "More than a year after the end of the war, we confront shortages of sugar, soap, white shirts, clothes for children, while newspapers tell us of factories closing down for lack of raw materials and of automobile companies scrapping their plans to expand. All this in a country which persists in shipping large quantities of many much-desired articles to a country like Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia, in which our own citizens and other friends of human freedom, such as Archbishop Stepinac, have been maltreated and killed...
...average pay of Guardian reporters is only $48 a week). For his right-hand man and chief leader writer he chose slender, 35-year-old John M. D. Pringle, an Oxford graduate and foreign affairs expert who had been with the Guardian and the BBC before the war. To expand his U.S. coverage, handled for 19 years by the New Republic's Editor Bruce Bliven, he hired BBCman Alistair Cooke, now the Guardian's U.N. correspondent...