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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deferred Spending." Not chicken feed but ?400 millions yearly is the sum famed British Economist John Maynard Keynes figures His Majesty's Government could obtain by what he now calls "Deferred Spending." This is an improved, revised version of the famed Keynes Plan (TIME, Nov. 27) which today is just about the biggest topic of behind-the-scenes fiscal gossip in Britain...
...required ten months for Oliver to obtain a working knowledge of the Siwai. His method of learning the strange, unwritten tongue was to induce villagers to tell him familiar stories and myths of the tribe, while he wrote them down in phonetic spelling...
...thirty extra-curricular lectures and informal talks. Audiences attending them range from three to several hundred, while the subjects may be anything from Atom Smashing to the Future of the British Empire. Some of these lectures are scoteric and unpalatable, others vital and appealing; rarely do any of them obtain the hearing or the permanence to which they are entitled...
...order to eat in the House dining halls, Freshmen must obtain transfer charge slips at the Union. Application for them must be between the hours of 8:45 to 9:30, 1:30 to 2, 5:15 to 5:30, or 7 to 7:30 o'clock. The slips are non-transferable and must be returned if not used...
While at Cambridge the Nieman Fellows are not restricted to any department of the University. They may audit any number of courses, read and study independently, and obtain tutorial advice from members of the faculty...