Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final step was made in 1906 when the money raised was placed in the unrestricted category. The $100,000 level remained until 1923 when the Class of 1896 increased the contribution...
Over the past thirty years, the reunion gift has gradually grown, although it did experience a drop back to the $100,000 level during the depression years. In the last two years, the classes of 1929 and 1930 have given approximately $300,000 each, even though they were originally the "depression classes" which first claimed they were too poor to contribute much to their reunion fund. Present figures indicate that the Class of 1931 is well on its way to reaching the $300,000 goal for next year...
...George Humphrey's Georgia plantation Dwight Eisenhower went about his holiday exertions with the cheerful equanimity of a man who has already made his big decisions. On two successive days the President shot 18 holes of golf, and, although his game was not up to its pre-coronary level, his good humor remained unruffled. "You are going to hear a heck of a lot of laughter today," he told Glen Arven Country Club Pro Johnny Walter at the start of the first 18. "My doctor has given me orders that if I don't start laughing instead...
Copper producers are racing to boost output, expect worldwide capacity to increase by 229,500 short tons in 1956, or 8.3%, plus another 150,000 tons lost by strikes last year. By 1958 world copper capacity should be 15.7% above the 1955 level (2,928,000 tons). In Washington last week Government agencies were uniformly hopeful that the copper squeeze will end by midyear as a result of increased supply and slackening demand in some industries. However, few users put off orders in the hope that plentiful copper is just around the corner. Even without strikes, many argued, long-term...
Hoadley believed that there is "a big place for Biochemical Sciences on a non-honors level," explaining that through such a program the premedical student gets the best oportunity to take a diversified program and still fulfill his basic premedical requirements...