Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harris' final suggestion is consolidation. "No great injury would be done the country if a substantial proportion of its institutions of higher education were closed. By reducing the number of schools, we will be able to increase the size of the remainder and thus lower unit costs in the end...
Way back in 1902, President Eliot surveyed the overcrowded library in Gore Hall and "doubted whether it be wise for a University to undertake to store books by the millions when only a small proportion of the material stored can be in active use." He suggested that dead books could...
"More important than greater consumption will be the rise in the use of services," Slichter concluded. "Medical services will be used far more . . . the proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise . . . travel will grow in popularity."
Proposed revisions would remove many of the discriminatory provisions and increase the total number admittable to 339,000. This would bring the United States' share of DP's in closer proportion with the quotas of other smaller countries, such as Great Britain.
Television has been gradually taking over the WBZ building. Radio doesn't require much room, for most of WBZ-AM emanates either from the NBC network or from sister-station WBZA in Springfield. Ever since the WBZ building opened in July, 1948, television has been taking over space in corresponding...