Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine was invented by French telephone engineers Rene Higgonet and Louis Moyroud, later developed by scientists including Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime boss of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. The Lithomat Corp. expects to market commercial versions for "less than $5,000" within 18 months, well under the average price of a Mergenthaler linotype...
Britain's government, says Lewis, is trying to do something about this state of affairs, but it is doing it all wrong. It is spending most of its art appropriations on lectures, official salaries and historical art exhibitions, and setting aside less than ?5,000 a year to buy the works of living artists...
Later, when Jesse became a superintendent, he found things less pleasant. Educationally, Kentucky was near the bottom of the nation's list ("Thank God for Arkansas," people used to say). The schools were often under the thumb of dictatorial trustees "who couldn't write their names, who would not know their own names if they had been printed on road signs...
Veteran enrollment in the College has also taken a steep plunge. Only 100 ex-GI's showed up in the Class of 1953, leaving 800 less in the whole College...
Three thousand eight hundred and thirty upperclassmen will run the Memorial Hall obstacle race today as the College takes another slash in its enrollment and winds up with less than 5000 students for the first time since...