Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four pairs of bridge experts, chosen by their play in College-wide competition, will bid and contract on a nation-wide level this afternoon as Harvard's entry in the annual, intercollegiate bridge tournament...
...meet the increase in applicants for entrance to the school, today's student enrollment is 50 percent above the level of the 1930s, and teaching programs have been greatly expanded, Dean David claimed. Nevertheless, "we are forced to deny admission to hundreds of men whom we would accept in normal times...
...news for dormitory residents does not end here. Despite recent dips in commodity and retail prices, University financial experts believe that there will be a substantial rise in the general price level by next year, a rise that will bloat maintenance costs and in other ways increase the expense of running the Houses and dormitories. With the College returning to a two-term schedule and summertime rents gone, the men who plan the College's financial future can see no alternative to raising room rents...
...World War II veterans who chose the Postal Service for a career, and at the bottom grade pay of $2,100 a year must somehow support our growing and frequently evicted and homeless families. Under present Postal Regulations it will take us ten years to reach the $3,100 level, if we manage to hang...
When Arthur Lane stepped into the plane that, in July 1945, was to take him to his post as U.S. Ambassador to Poland, few Americans yet realized that Lane's mission was doomed to the futilities of diplomatic protests. But no Big-Three doubletalk, no top-level deals, not even thick applications of F.D.R.'s charm on Stalin, could alter the inescapable fact: the Russians were...