Word: listed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide of the mark." Big unions do indeed push wages up, but the boosts have been just about canceled by rises in productivity brought about by use of more and better machines. Corporations do up their prices, but trade-ins and retail discounts partly make up for the list-price increases. As a result, actual retail prices of goods average about the same now as four years ago. Some items are up, e.g., new cars and toilet articles, but others are down, e.g., furniture and toys. But non-goods prices are all up: laundry, 11%; rent, 12%; haircuts, 14%; transit...
...arrest, a sponsor of schemes to prevent Gomulka's return to power after the Poznan riots, a champion of the policy of encouraging anti-Semitism in order to divert the anger of the masses from the Stalinist party leaders. Nowak's name had been stricken from the list of candidates for the new Parliament...
...Maybe." Victor will slowly add the "approved" recordings to its already bulging list of Toscanini disks. (In 17 years of recording for Victor, Toscanini sold better than any other classical artist in history-22 million record units, $40 million in retail sales.) The tapes his father definitely rejected, says Walter Toscanini, will never be released, although they will be preserved at Riverdale as historical documents. But of the 350 hours of Toscanini tapes to work from, roughly half are in a "maybe" category: papa liked them except for minor flaws. Record buyers may eventually hear some portions of them. "Sometimes...
...Annex, 47 percent held the Group III or better standing required for the List, while only 35 percent of Harvard men were included in the top three groups. A rise in grades usually takes place during the spring term; the 39 percent of Harvard students on Dean's List at the end of the 1956 spring semester, and the 52 percent at Radcliffe constituted increases over the first semester of last year...
...Harvard, 42.6 percent of seniors achieved Dean's List standing, as did 59 percent of Radcliffe seniors; 36.4 percent of Harvard juniors, 54 percent of Radcliffe juniors; 36.4 percent of Harvard sophomores, 42 percent of Radcliffe sophomores; 31.5 percent of Harvard freshmen, and 40 percent of Radcliffe freshmen...