Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...navigation, irrigation, and electric power as well. One, the Pick-Sloan plan of the Army engineers and the U. S. Reclamation Bureau, was already in the blueprint stage, with some construction under way. The other, a Missouri Valley Authority following the general pattern of the TVA, was only on paper. The difference between them was that the Pick-Sloan plan was an amalgam of Federal and State agencies, and of compromises between proponents of irrigation and navigation, while the MVA would be an independent regional agency treating the river as a single problem transcending state boundaries...
...subscription would mean, abundant publicity or no, a severe drop in circulation which would lead to a curtailment of much of our advertising which depends on the large circulation. Therefore financial motivation is the News's most urgent argument for compulsory subscription. Without the money there can be no paper at Radcliffe...
...chief reason for the present lack of personal attention is caused by the excessive burden on the readers. In many courses, the instructor carries more than his share by grading graduate papers. The undergraduate burden, therefore, falls chiefly on the assistants, with an average of a little less than 100 papers per course. Since the Registrar's Office requires grades one week after the examination has been held, there is little opportunity for correcting papers thoroughly and in time for the students to see them. Fifteen minutes per paper is a generous estimate, for this amounts to a 25-hour...
...there are few students who will wait for a week after their last exam in June for its return, there could be an improvement next year in the case of the February exams. The number of readers should be increased so that more attention can be paid to each paper and so that the process can be speeded up. The paper could thus be returned in time for the student to make any justified complaints before his grade is handed in. No increase in cost would he involved, since most departments pay their readers per paper. The instructive value...
...Paper. The paper began as a thrice-weekly, became a daily in two months. Circulation rose to 450,000 copies a day, then was cut back to 350,000 because of the newsprint shortage. Today, printing six to eight grey, pictureless pages a day, the paper has 40 editorial staffers, 40 linotypes and four presses...