Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more Ivy League colleges, Brown and Columbia, have announced plans to raise tuition next fall. Officials at both schools have states that the increases will be used for faculty salaries. "Competition for faculty among educational institutions is great," declared Barnaby C. Keeney, president of Brown...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. An exciting history of the great sea battle, and of the climate of political and religious strife that brought the English and Spanish fleets into collision...
...Face, the newspaper published by the state penitentiary, ran a want ad: "Reporter for fast-growing biweekly in exclusive suburban area on historic Congaree River. No experience needed; will train for the specialized needs of the community; not much to work with, very little compensation, but there is a great deal of security attached...
...looked around for a job, after due consideration signed on as manager of a rundown cemetery near Los Angeles. One day in 1917, as Eaton surveyed his "depressing patches of devil grass, straggling untidy pepper trees [and] grim granite headstones," he was seized with a thrilling vision of "a great park, devoid of [the] customary signs of earthly death," where the dead might, in the biographer's prose, have "a beautiful passage to eternal life," a place, said Eaton, "where lovers new and old shall love to stroll and watch the sunset glow...
Although American foreign aid has been "a great success," in several countries military grants have been wasted, according to John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics. During yesterday's WGBH-TV program "Foreign Aid and Economic Policy," Galbraith also charged that the United States has damaged its reputation by associating with totalitarian rulers in Latin America...