Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bright-eyed British noblewoman pertly broke the ice one day, whereupon she was warmly and immediately reassured. Well-mannered and well-indoctrinated young embassy spear carriers were ever ready to convince their U.S. opposite numbers that they had really invaded Egypt to stop the Russians. The higher-ups concentrated on background briefing U.S. columnists and pundits-many of them still awallow in the wash of the sunken Adlai Stevenson-to the effect that Secretary Dulles had really been something of a failure (which was the British-French, as well as the sunk Stevensonian line...
...does Harvard, with the biggest university endowment in the U.S., need so much new money? Pusey's reply, which is now going out to alumni, is more than just a plea for Harvard. It is a dramatic description of the ever-expanding needs and challenges of U.S. higher education...
...generation," says Pusey, "the difficulties of financing higher education have increased substantially. Twenty-five years ago income from that part of Harvard's endowment fund which belongs to the college met 47% of the cost of operating the college. Last year this income met less than 27% ... Though the amount of endowment has considerably increased, and the income from it has doubled in 25 years, the significant fact is that during this period the costs of operating the college have quadrupled . .. President Lowell said in 1921, 'Universities, if successful, must be beggars, and the better work they...
...Jones industrial average had dipped to 480.67 for a 4.68-point loss. Only steels were consistent gainers, and there the star was Lukens Steel, makers of heavy steel plate for ships. Jumping as much as 12 points a session, it shot 34½ points higher during the week, closed at a new peak of 148 for a better than 300% gain since...
...past 60 years have seen several significant ventures toward establishing new centers of higher education in this country. John D. Rockefeller led to the first in 1890 when he donated $600,000 for founding a university in Chicago...