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Word: overcrowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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A bright lawyer named Manuel Ramon Navarro Patron had shown the way. Sent to Bogota to lobby for Cartagena (pop. 100,000), he had campaigned so well that by last week the Government had agreed to channel to Cartagena a big chunk of the Magdalena River traffic that had lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Old Port, New Day | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Despite the record enrollment, classes at America's "farthest-north university" were still small, rarely more than 20. President Bunnell wanted it that way: he thought students ought to know each other and their professors well. As in past years, there were a good many sourdough scholars, older than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top-of-the- World University | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

But before hysterical cries of inefficiency and indifference are bandied about, a closer glimpse at the picture might be appropriate. Survey of the dental situation in the Boston area would show that the University's problem is merely a symptom of a general trend. Throughout New England, throughout the entire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Word of Mouth | 12/14/1946 | See Source »

Disappearing Dreams. Outsiders thought that some of T.W.A.'s troubles were also due to T.W.A.'s overambitious expansion plans. T.W.A. had increased its payroll to service many foreign routes before T.W.A. had the planes to fly them. Now, the strike had caused the line to cancel orders for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Rough Air | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

The plight of the smaller organizations-the Red Book, the Album, and dozens of other groups of similar size-is no better. The Student Council, probing the matter, is finding out what too many people have known for too long: there is no office space, no convenient meeting place, in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S.R.O.? | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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