Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lucius shuffled and raised his right foot. Just then Miss Schroeder came into view. (She occupied the next alcove on the third level, and he'd had his eye on her for months. One day while she was having lunch he had gone right into her cubicle and learned her name from her books. She had small handwriting. And then he had left everything just as it was, and never said anything. Sometimes he'd stop working and just watch the back of her hair net.) This was too good to miss now, having her see him right there getting...
...gone up each year for the last three years, would seem to indicate that the University's "onward and upward" campaign is in full swing. What this means, of course, is that increases of one kind or another will continue each year, until Harvard's "expansion phase" begins to level off. In addition, since it appears that the Program will not achieve its goal of $82.5 million by June, 1959, its failure is only one more reason to expect continued increases in student costs. In the words of one Administration official, a lot of students are going to have...
...granted that "You are 'stuck' with your heredity," the group contends that if either a parent or grandparent died prematurely of arterial disease, "it is most important that you minimize the effect of the other factors." The others: being overweight by ten pounds or more, a high level of cholesterol in the blood, high blood pressure, smoking too much. For all these, the physicians' advice was the same: "See your physician...
...been recorded conscientiously by the Government since 1890 and projected back as far as 1749. The index shows that prices have generally risen in times of prosperity or of war, fallen in times of depression. During the severe depression of the early 1890s U.S. prices hit their lowest level in history...
...they expect a rise soon in the discount rate, now 2½%, as well as a corresponding hike in the prime rates. Said Hanover Bank's President R. E. McNeill Jr.: "I would not be surprised to see an increase in the discount rate. There is a high level of business, inventories are down, money is fairly tight, and banks are well invested." With higher rates ahead, U.S. bonds had another sinking spell last week, reached the lowest level in years; many Treasury issues now yield more than 4%. Furthermore, future Treasury issues may meet only a tepid reception...