Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dormitory space provided by students who have left the University or who has moved into Houses will allow some commuters to live at the University within the next several weeks, White noted. In past years an average of about 15 such vacancies has been made available...
...varsity squash team will prolong its latest winning streak this afternoon at 3:30 in Hemenway Gymnasium when it plays a weak Amherst squad. In the past, the Amherst match has always provided the varsity with a breathing spot on its schedule, and this year will be no exception...
Croman proposed that the Council take a serious second look at its fund raising efforts. "In the past, we have fleeced the freshmen by suggesting that the 'average contribution' was five dollars," he explained, "and when they discover the truth, they are indoctrinated with a bitterness toward the Council." He called for a study of "more equitable" means of financing the Council's activities...
...bumping against the top legal limit of 4¼%. As the bond market, led by Government issues, drifted downward, the "spread" between bond and stock yields grew still larger; highest-grade corporate bonds now yield an average 4.2% v. 3.3% for the Dow-Jones industrials. Rarely in the past 50 years have stocks yielded less than bonds for any length of time except in 1927-29, when the rising stock market kept stock yields under bonds for almost three years. With rising interest rates and the bull market, Wall Streeters see no early reversal in the spread...
Kindly Stygian. Betjeman's nostalgia is for the Victorian past; his heart is in its poor remnants, and he frankly calls himself "a case of arrested development." He was raised comfortably in London, great-grandson of a Dutch-descended Englishman who grew rich on inventions such as the tantalus, a contrivance to keep Victorian housemaids out of the port. Betjeman went to Oxford's Magdalen College, where he detested his tutor (Author C. S. Lewis), failed to get a degree because he forgot to take "divvers" (divinity...