Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...individual college level, how can Harvard best integrate its function as a college with its function as a university? Can the admissions policy be widened to bring in more students from lower economic groups? What should be the criteria for allotting scholarships? To what uses can the House system and Tutorial best be put? Questions of this more specific nature cannot be intelligently answered until the basic aims of college education have been defined...
...unidentified, the two sympathizers of state economic planning will reply in the following issue of the Review. The conclusions of the report picture the U.S.S.R. as a poverty-stricken nation with an average standard of living slightly better than one sixth the American level...
...does suggest that the Russian failure to make use of their 1926-27 price level measurements as they claim they are doing leads to many serious distortions. Because of war devastation, and the resulting inflation of the ruble, evaluation of new production has "a substantial upward bias," in the report's wording...
...Parity is a theoretical price level for farm products which is intended to give farmers the same amount of purchasing power they had in some past favorable period, usually...
...level chieftains of both groups are intent on "recapturing" the Democratic Party. ADA's very formation stemmed from feeling on the part of liberal Democrats such as Chester Bowles that Henry Wallace's involvement with Communist Party supporters would hamstring honest resolution of public issues--as well as prove "bad politics." Now the defensibility of this premise has been weakened; for ADA's careerist Democrats seemingly cannot face up to foreign policy unhandcuffed by their own Truman-tied Party Line. The resultant bitter feuding between ADA and PCA on international questions has prevented coordinated planning on domestic policy--where...