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...this is a disputable proposition, our circumstances demand that we set ourselves to trying to prove to the world that it is true. Instead, we seem to acquiesce to the stale view that the ideal of a good education is only attainable by means of more and more outlay. We decide, for example, that athletes have their place in a perfect educational scheme, so we include a further subsidy to that department in a tuition rise that is serious enough in itself. Could we perhaps get along with fewer coaches, with a less elaborate program, and in this way make...
...immediate launching of a research program in radio astronomy with an initial two-year outlay of $32,000 from the National Science Foundation and an anonymous gift believed to be of comparable size...
...result, though not dull, is fairly distressing. No opera better lends itself to spectacle than Aida, and thanks to Lemuel Ayers' opulent sets and costumes and a $250,000 outlay in non-Confederate money, My Darlin' Aida is often bright spectacle enough. As for the story, its bloodhound violences have more bang than the opera's rather bloodless grandiosities; but My Darlin' Aida is a mass of strident cliches, puerile dialogue and hack vulgarities. As for the score, though its glories remain, they are dented and tarnished by embarrassing lyrics, new bits of orchestration, and musicomedy...
...that lost is China? We say "it appears" because the GOP assumes the very point of contention by asserting that America could have altered events in the Chinese civil war. The disintegration of Chiang's battered army, corrupt and ill-led as it was, was preventable only by an outlay of American manpower and purchasing power which the American public at that time raucously refused to yield...
...held 17% of Williamsport's stock, advised the company to go into receivership. In 1937, Federal Judge Albert W. Johnson ordered that the company be sold. He approved a bid of $3,300,000 from Bethlehem Steel, and wiped out stockholders' interests. Bethlehem's total cash outlay in the deal was only $89,000. It paid the balance by turning over $1,200,000 par value of Wire Rope's bonds, and certain bank claims and "open accounts" it had bought...