Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most schools opened on schedule, and health authorities argued that children were safer in school than out because carefully regulated schedules would protect them from overexertion. Besides, it is easier to get them to bed earlier with the warning of "school tomorrow." But in the lower grades there were many empty seats. Said a Brooklyn principal: "Parents are dreadfully scared...
Secretary Brannan is willing to "do something for beef" and for just about every other farm product in the book (TIME, April 18). With the Hope-Aiken Act set to function in 1950, providing for a lower and more flexible level of price supports, he has advanced a counterplan to commit Agriculture to a permanent policy of high price pegs. The Brannan plan brushes aside any idea of a gradual reduction of price props, and substitutes much higher support prices pegged to an "income support standard." This would guarantee farmers an income as fat as the one they have enjoyed...
...which opens the evening, seemed to me the more successful of the two. It is a very interesting, if leisurely paced show, with deft touches of understated humor and sensitivity. Evans plays an austere and reserved master of the Classics in an English public school--"the Himmel of the Lower Fifth," as he is characterized by the headmaster. The play concerns the gradual eliciting of his emotions toward himself, his work and his promiscuous wife. A humorless man, he had been unable, throughout his career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which...
...lower enrollment has also meant the new $600 tuition. According to Provost Buck, the College would suffer a $400,000 deficit if it continued on the old tuition rate this year. The $600 fee is expected to keep Harvard in the black even when it slips to a normal 4300 registration...
...quickly made the new school the intellectual center of the West. He led it through the troublesome early years and started its amazingly rapid growth. In 1915, Ray Lyman Wilber became president and completed the job of making Stanford a leading educational institution. He anticipated general education with a "lower division" program requiring a student to divide his studies for his first two years almost equally among the three general fields, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Donald B. Tresidder was president from the early thirties until his sudden death two years ago. His extremely friendly relationship with the students...