Word: expands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourth, the rising prices, which to the average student means a little more scrimping, have more extensive implications for the College. Inflation has cut deeply into scholarship endowment income at a time when the University is trying to expand scholarship aid to bring in a wider variety of students. "This is of first importance for the quality of the future Harvard's student body and for Harvard's role as a democratic national educational institution open to talent wherever found," says the Conant report...
...University will study and look at it (the request), but would be reluctant to lose title to the land," Reynolds commented last night. The Observatory and two other small plots are the only spots left onto which the University can expand...
...clanging metropolis of lathes, spindles and plentiful credit, fortunes are made in a few years. Most enterprisers expand frenetically, cut the pie in a quick, cold-eyed killing, then move on to bigger things. Declared industrial profits average 18%-but many a Paulista would not touch a deal for less than 100%. Taxes are low, and collection is lax. In an atmosphere as favorable to freewheeling enterprise as the U.S. in President Grant's time, 100% profit is an attainable goal. At least 500 Paulistas have made their million (in terms of U.S. dollars), and 1,000 more...
...company never did get around to moving, and last month it suddenly announced that it had given up the whole idea. Instead, it said, it was going to expand right there in Oxford. The first thing it planned to build: its new gas retort, 92 ft. high...
...countries, soon was selling 50% of his lumber abroad. During the war, he picked up four sawmills at sawdust-cheap prices, and was ready with his own lumber supplies when World War II ended. By 1946, he had annual sales of $13 million, and a young management raring to expand. The booming plywood business seemed just the thing...