Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take care of more students, said Barzun, the graduate school can go far with such reforms as accelerating courses, eliminating departmental duplication, and relieving professors of routine paper work better handled by a secretary. But though a little expansion, e.g., 10%, might be feasible for such schools as Columbia's, a sizable increase in the student body is no answer to the graduate school's problem...
FIRST MOVE INTO SOUTH will be made by No. 1 U.S. producer of timber products, Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Venturing out of Pacific Northwest, where it holds 2,600,000 acres of timberlands, Weyerhaeuser will take options from Mississippi Pulp & Paper Co. and other local owners on 90,000 acres of logged-off pinelands in Mississippi and Alabama, reforest the land, eventually build a major pulping plant near Columbus, Miss...
Matter of Taste. Next season Dr. Urquhart and his growing corps of volunteers were ready with waterproof paper labels. In 1955, 382 taggers put labels on 10,000 butterflies. This time 30 letters came. Tagged Monarchs had been found as far south as Virginia...
...being reported. Ordinarily, birds do not eat Monarchs, and naturalists have assumed that they taste bad. Dr. Urquhart tried Monarchs and found that they have hardly any taste, resembling dry toast. So he was not surprised to find that birds eat labeled Monarchs without hesitation. The bit of white paper seems to spoil a natural color pattern that keeps birds away...
When Publisher Atkinson died in 1948, he left the paper to a charitable foundation that he had set up to avoid paying crippling inheritance taxes. To comply with an Ontario law that sets a seven-year limit on ownership of businesses by philanthropic groups, the paper technically should have been put up for sale last April. But when Canadian Beer Tycoon E. P. Taylor offered $25 million for the Star, three of the five directors vetoed the sale out of respect for Atkinson's oft-stated hope that the Star would remain in his family's or employees...