Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These stipend adjustments can be covered by surplus funds only for another year or two, Bender says. "What may happen in future years, however, particularly if there are further increases in College charges as enrollment drops ...gives cause for grave concern..." The number of scholarships must not go down, the report says, if "the College is to have a democratic national student body." But when surpluses evaporate, the number of scholarships or the size of grants will have to drop, Bender goes on, unless a new solution is found
Called "Autobiography-2000 A.D.," the questionnaire asked students to predict what would happen to them in the next 50 years. Questions included, "How do you expect to die?" "What is the worst thing that will probably happen to you?" and "Do you expect to got divorced...
...discarded as a timekeeper. But there are consolations. If the world's official time is kept by the atom clock, the length of the day, in atomic hours, will increase as the motion of the earth slows down. Eventually man will enjoy a 25-hour day. This will happen, according to some calculations, in about 1,800,000 centuries...
...maintaining their regular schedules. Dr. Lloyd S. Ruland, China secretary for the Northern Presbyterians, reported Communist soldiers not only attending Presbyterian missionaries' lectures, but also expressing surprise that Christianity teaches brotherly love and the brotherhood of man. But missionary leaders are well aware of what is likely to happen to such tolerant policies when the Communists have their military victory behind them. Said Dr. Ballou on the subject last week: "I've got more hope than I've got faith...
...Hint & the Jolt. The show was meant as a hint of what might happen if artists and Church were to cooperate once again, as they had in the greatest periods of Western art. It was an important and provocative try. But the ten statues commissioned by the society, while more varied than the Barclay Street product, were not always an improvement...