Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother-in-law, wealthy businessman Raja Hutheesingh, who held the Prime Minister more responsible than the Congress Party for the nation's "corruption, nepotism, jobbery and unseemly haste to amass wealth by crooked gains and avoidance of taxation. All these sores of the body politic grow larger and larger every day." He went on: "Our present degradation is leading the country to the same morass in which Chiang Kai-shek's China found itself. There was no rescue in China from the jaws of Communism. But in India we had one hope. If a man like Mr. Nehru...
...Harvard Fund garners contributions from only a little more than 40 per cent of the alumni contacted each year, while Dartmouth achieves almost 80 per cent, Princeton 70 per cent, and even Yale receives a far higher percentage of givers than Harvard. Though the Harvard contributions are larger on the average than those of any other college, the relatively low percentage of givers should be a matter of concern for the administration...
...solicitation of contributions. Earlier classes have fewer. The Permanent Class Committee must labor mightily to find the four magic individuals who know most of their classmates--especially the affluent ones--and who are either Bostonians or New Yorkers. The small size of the Fund staff prevents the utilization of larger numbers of agents. The dominant belief that agents must be a part of a small happy family in constant contact with the Fund office limits the location of prospective class agents as well as their number...
...migration to Dunster House. In Dunster House hamburgers were served, with French fried onions. The Central Kitchen does not serve French fried onions. Now it seems that French fried onions bought in bulk--if that is in what French fried onions are bought--will be cheaper for the larger bulk which the Central Kitchen will buy. Expense, therefore, is not prohibitive...
...this is only a portion of a larger picture. The Dunster hamburgers, if not chopped sirloin, are nevertheless the right color for hamburgers. Some weeks ago in Lowell a tray of patties was late in coming, and a line piled up. "What's the matter?" asked someone from...