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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many, Powers' position seemed poorly supported. But others, such as Arnold M. Soloway, assistant professor of Economics and a member of Powers' "brain trust," doubt that Boston would, in the long-run, benefit from the sales tax revenue. "The city is like a sponge," Soloway says. If Boston got a windfall from the state, various groups of city employees would pressure for wage raises; this patronage pressure would soon soak up the additional funds meant for easing the tax burden...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock and Claude E. Welch jr., S | Title: Boston's Campaign: A Pun Against a Promise | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...hour-long, five-part test was developed by Carroll and Professor Stanley M. Sapon, now at Ohio State University, principally under Carnegie Corporation grants. Existing tests, Carroll declared, are not doing a sufficiently good job of predicting language success and have not kept pace with changes in the teaching of languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Test Measures Aptitude in Languages | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...David M. Balabanian '60, chairman of the new committee, said last night that its report will be brought to a vote after discussion at tonight's Council meeting...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: New Committee Report Urges NDEA Rejection | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...M. BAYNE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...symbolist poetry," he decided. "Il pleure dans mon coeur com-me il pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors, M. Plombier etait une ame sympathique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Form of Travel | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

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