Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elder characterized the figures as "startling at first sight." The discrepancy in numbers, however, is not unusual on the graduate level, he said...
...present, Harvard is the only school to request a $5 application fee at the graduate level. Other schools are considering this method of limiting multiple applications. By discouraging prospective students from over-applying, the gap between the number accepted and the number actually registering may be diminished, Elder suggested...
...decided to study India's politics at the state level rather than beginning at New Delhi," said Lloyd. "In India, the states produce the national leaders. With a federal system composed of states the size of Germany and France, they don't recruit out of parliament as the British do. In fact, one of India's difficulties is finding state leaders capable of being national figures. We couldn't do all fourteen states, so we picked Rajastan in the North and Madras in the South...
...April to $16.1 billion, 2% better than March. Most important, durable goods registered a gain for the first time this year, while housing, slowed by a cold winter and a wet spring, was picking up speed rapidly. April housing jumped to an annual rate of 950,000, v. a level of 880,000 in March, and is expected to do even better in May. ¶ Inventories declined still another $700 million in March, bringing closer the time when many industries must start reordering. As steel stocks slipped down to the 1954 level, steelmen report that 10% of all capacity...
...based upon the naturalistic outlook of agnosticism and atheism, extends far beyond that premise. Humanism assimilates the spirit and substance of modern science and democracy, and incorporates the dynamic aspects of our civilization. In its concern for mankind, it equals, if indeed it does not surpass, the highest ethical level which any traditional religion has yet reached...