Word: grant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its request for $250,000, the University yesterday received a grant of only $26,807 for long-term student loans under the National Defense Education Act. The money is to assure that "no student of ability will be denied an opportunity for higher education because of financial need...
...suspect," said McDonald, "that the Federal Government wanted to distribute the money with particular urgency to demonstrate that it could use the $24 million in additional funds requested recently by the President." Slashing the grant to each college to 10 per cent of its request, rather than examining actual needs, seemed "the quickest way," he thought...
Under the present plan, some students contribute varying amounts to a House fund, so that roommates with less financial resources can be charged lower rents. The new system will replace these contributions with a University provided grant...
...Lobster. While Crabbe is doomed to have a bad time with publishers, Author Rolfe clearly had a wonderful time writing about them, and British Bibliographer Cecil Woolf, in his introduction, provides a convenient Who's Who. Grant Richards, publisher of such authors as Shaw and Housman, appears in the novel as Doron Oldcastle, "an ostentatious tyrannical turpilucricupidous half-licked pragmatic provincial bumpkin." Publisher John Lane, who published works by Anatole France, Ernest Dowson and Francis Thompson, is seen as Slim Schelm, "a tubby little pot-bellied bantam, looking as though he had been suckled on bad beer." Oldcastle commissions...
...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Genu, Cyclopes and a floppy dragon conspiring against a few human types (Kathryn Grant Crosby, Kerwin Mathews), in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...