Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the State College is inadequate. Legislators who doubt that expansion will be necessary in the long run, once the State returns to normalcy, need only be shown the number turned away from M.S.C. in the last ten years. Besides, there will be no return to the prewar educational flow in and out of colleges. Soon the veterans' kid brothers will be wanting to go to college, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the present time prepared to do away with its emergency measures, must meet its future responsibilities by expanding its retarded facilities for State education...
Continued flow of funds into the Phillips Brooks House office of the Food Relief Committee caused Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, to extend the campaign for an additional week last night "so as not to discourage those who have not yet contributed...
Still $3,000 short of the $25,000 goal, Campbell reported that "the flow of income is not letting up," and pointed to the receipt during the past two days of $200 from faculty members and $100 from a New York alumnus. Over 1400 of the faculty men and women have not yet responded to the Committee's second appeal...
...Government had done a good job since Liberation. The shops were full of goods, 1946 American cars rolled through the streets, multicolored neon lights made Brussels one of Europe's few gay capitals. By permitting a rich flow of imports, cutting prices 10%, keeping wages down and boosting taxes, the Government had licked inflation. But trade was stagnating. Wailed Catholic Opposition Leader Frans van Cauwelaert: "We have wasted our chances, we have squandered our resources. For too long now we have gobbled down the compliments of visiting foreigners, telling us how well off we are compared to other European...
...Flying Officer Kyte, a feet-off-the-ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...