Search Details

Word: mammoths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Because almost all of the act's provisions are designed to aid students and support "developing" institutions, they will have little immediate application to Harvard. The $5000 matching-grant to all college libraries, for example, would hardly pay a day's salaries at mammoth Widener, and any appropriation based on existing library resources is likely to put Harvard last on the list...

Author: By John D. Gerhart and Mary L. Wissler, S | Title: The Higher Education Act: New Step in Federal Aid | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

...Europe, has already invested in eleven in seven countries, including one in the Italian Alps that is strategically located near the transalpine tunnels. The company has decided to go into le drugstore, a spreading phenomenon in Europe, by putting up half the $2,000,000 cost of a mammoth new one opposite the Paris Opera; unlike ordinary Parisian pharmacies, this establishment will sell everything from Scotch to Scotch tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: New Track for Wagons-Lits | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...line, both right, left, and center Don Gunn, should have an easier time with the Tufts line than with the mammoth Holy Cross defense. The Jumbos weights are about on a par with Harvard's, and the Crimson was able to clear a way through Holy Cross defenders who outweighed them by 20 to 30 pounds...

Author: By Ler H. Simowitz, | Title: Tufts Poses Little Threat To Crimson | 10/2/1965 | See Source »

...mammoth Holy Cross line didn't prove as damaging as had been feared. "Our linemen were able to get the angles on them," said Shevlin, "although they were tough to move because they were big and strong. They weren't quick...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Single Afternoon of Glory Skyrockets Shevlin From Football Limbo to Fame | 9/29/1965 | See Source »

...requirements and the less restrictive rules; some regionals go so far as to let their members split fees with nonmembers. The Big Board, on the other hand, bans fee splitting with nonmembers, including even such big customers as mutual funds and pension funds, who buy and sell shares in mammoth blocks. In a move that stunned most of the investment community, the Pacific Exchange recently became the nation's first to admit mutual-fund management companies to membership-a move that, if it becomes a trend, could cause brokers to go flocking to the regional exchanges in pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stock Markets: Those Other Exchanges | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Previous | 218 | 219 | 220 | 221 | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | Next