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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Government, the leading field for every freshman class from '51 through '56, dropped to 11.1 percent from its previous high of 16.5 for the classes of '55 and '56. The most popular field last year, History, dropped only .9 percent, but placed third behind Government with 10.6 percent...
...than a year ago. U.S. Steel, by earning $72,652,402 in 1955's first three months, topped the record of $61,379,757 for that period, set in 1917. And, said Board Chairman Benjamin Fairless, earnings and production for the full year should be better than any previous year except 1953. Not to be outdone, Bethlehem Steel announced that its first-quarter earnings of $35,313,262 were also the best it had ever done in that period, declared a dividend of $1.50 a share. The outlook for the rest of the year was so good, said Board...
Despite his previous sketchiness, in the last scene Harte finally achieves a moving portrayal of the religious conflict between the missionary and the pagan tribe. This comes a little too late to make The Tribe a strong play, but together with the merits of Die Quietly, My Love it promises another interesting performance in Agassiz this afternoon...
...Previous to the writing of the letter, the Council conferred through Levin with Farnsworth, and held on open discussion with John Butler, executive assistant to the director of the University Health Service...
...specialists . . . "To Gibbon the literary change from Virgil to Beowulf . . . would have seemed greater than it can to us. We can now see quite clearly that these barbarian poems were not really a novelty comparable to, say. The Waste Land ... I do not think that any previous age has produced work which was, in its own time, as shatteringly and bewilderingly new as that of the Cubists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists and Picasso has been in ours...