Word: faster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More so than many of his colleagues, Lowell was disturbed by the student housing situation which prevailed when he took office in 1909. Because the enrollment had increased faster than the College's physical facilities, many students were unable to live in College housing. Those who did were little better off than the others, for the College rooms were poorly kept up and equipped with marginal facilities...
Blockade Runners. World War I only made Philips grow bigger faster. To circumvent the blockage of the North Sea, the company outfitted its own fleet of fast blockade-running ships. With the home market protected from competition, the brothers Philips steadily pushed into new lines, made X-ray tubes for Dutch physicians. Seeing radio coming, they were turning out receiver and even transmitter tubes by 1919. After Gerard retired in 1922, Anton aggressively expanded, set up Philips plants in most countries of the world. Today from Eindhoven, one of Europe's biggest company towns (pop. 160,000), Anton...
...Russian economy growing faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal taxation, if necessary, to combat Russian expansion (see State of Business...
...rate of 6% a year. Thus, even if the U.S. G.N.P. increase rises to "our best postwar rate" of 3½% to 4%, Dulles predicted that by 1970 Russia's output will be 55% of the U.S.'s. The industrial gap may close even faster, says Dulles, since the Russians are expanding their industrial sector 8% or 9% a year, thus should attain 60% of U.S. industrial production by 1970 even if the U.S. industrial growth rate steps...
...Blows (Zenith International). A small boy stands at the bottom of a giant tin can, the centrifuge in an amusement park. As the can begins to spin, the centrifugal force moves him to the outer walls. Faster and faster it goes. Soon the boy can move neither backward nor forward; he is the prisoner of the machine. Searching for freedom, he scrambles along the walls upside down. The machine, he discovers, has repealed the natural law that keeps his feet on the ground. It has robbed him of all relationship to the true center of things...