Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic circles as an unobtrusive worker of wonders. In 1937 he took over Chicago's dying (400 students) Armour Institute of Technology, merged it with the Lewis Institute, transformed the two schools into the flourishing Illinois Institute of Technology. Enrollments soared to 7,000, and the campus grew from seven acres to 85. In 1951 Heald moved to N.Y.U., the largest (37,064 students) private university in the U.S., proved that he could make even the biggest grow. He put up a new medical science building, a student center, a residence hall, a military science center, has three additional...
...nothing but a new French fad-redolent of sex, sidewalk cafes, tight blue jeans and Communism. But on examination it seems that all kinds of respectable thinkers are existentialists, and that France's Atheist Jean-Paul Sartre represents merely a quasi-Communist splinter group in a movement that grew out of the thoughts of the great 19th century Danish religious thinker, Sören Kierkegaard. What is a modern-day existentialist? One who asks the great questions-"Who am I?" "Why am I here?"-and finds no answer. Can a Christian be an existentialist? He may ask the existentialist...
...educator") and loyal friends ("He has the good will of all. I don't know anybody who isn't his friend"), all in all managed to chalk up quite a record: in 16 years, the University's research increased tenfold, its campus grew by $79 million worth of new buildings, its enrollment rose from...
...against all temptations to curb the free interplay of ideas. "I am," he said, "one of the large number of old-fashioned Americans who care a good deal about our Bill of Rights and about maintaining American traditions of freedom and tolerance. We like the country in which we grew up, and we want it to stay that kind of country for our children and grandchildren...
...what the reasons are," says Smith. "I guess they are myriad." By cutting costs, American managed to pare its losses from $800,000 in 1953 to $150,000 in 1954, and last year it broke even. In the first half of this year, as advertising kept thinning out, losses grew to $300,000. Smith decided that the task of wooing advertisers back was too big and costly to tackle...