Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First among these stands tuition. Today Harvard has the lowest rates of any major college in the East. Yale, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. have succumbed to the onslaught of higher costs by raising their tuition, and there is no guarantee that Harvard will not be forced to follow suit in the future. But, as Mr. Bender points out, a raise in tuition may "price Harvard out of the market" when it comes to maintaining its standings as a democratic institution on a national basis. Students from the Mid and Far West would be unlikely to shell out increased tuition, and another...
When airplanes follow a great-circle course, they often buck head winds all the way. A longer course to the left or right may give them helpful tail winds. How to find such winds has been the problem. The pilot cannot depend, like a sailing-ship captain, on the average wind directions over long periods of time. He crosses too quickly for that. A strong head wind lasting only a few hours may upset his schedule as much as if it kept blowing for weeks...
...spite of this show of discouragement, few seemed to think that the U.S. was in for another steep price rise all around. Wheat and hogs made the headlines. But there were plenty of reasons why commodities in general would not follow. Hogs had been going their own wild way for months (see chart). Some metal prices, due to the worldwide shortages, might well rise some more-and stay up. But food was something else again. Wheat was up because of 1) a shortage of freight cars and 2) Herbert Hoover's recommendation that food exports to Europe be stepped...
...first of its kind in films. But in Boomerang! the trick is fully and perfectly turned. Also, an important corner is turned, away from Hollywood's rather monotonous dreamland, into the illimitable possibilities of the world the eye actually sees. Around that corner, many other films may follow, to everybody's profit...
...father was in trouble with the NKVD. She never saw him again. Some months later she herself was ,in Kazakstan, living mostly on whey, wild roots and tea. Her job on a Soviet dairy farm was explained "in quite a friendly way" by the ouprav (overseer). She was to follow the cows around, gather their dung, smear it over the wickerwork of nearby sheds. In time the dung would dry and then presto, said the overseer, the sheds would be habitable. For this she was paid a few kopecks a week, allowed to receive an occasional parcel from home...