Word: puts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation, this is just a practical financial measure that is completely impersonal. They can only afford to contribute a certain amount to scientific research and they prefer to give assistance to current professors. Bridgman himself has never lodged an official complaint as he feels "it doesn't put a man in a pleasant position to have to urge the value of his own contributions." But he feels that a more flexible retirement plan would not force a man to leave his work. Bridgman's high pressure experiments and equipment are now in the capable hands of William Paul, Assistant Professor...
...longer a professor remains an active lecturer the larger is his pension. Under the present system, the University contributes 12 1/2 per cent of the professor's yearly salary to a pension fund that is turned over to the professor upon his retirement. Formerly, the professor himself used to put 5 per cent of his salary into the fund, with the University providing the remaining 7 1/2 per cent. As it stands now, the professor actually receives 12 1/2 per cent of his salary annually, while a member of the Faculty...
...increase in the amount of time put in by P.B.H. members and the greater quality of their work is even more remarkable because of the trend to higher emphasis on academic performance, Little noted...
However, whenever the varsity managed to put two or three of these together, there would follow a poor performance--dispelling any illusions that perhaps it had finally "arrived." And now (with the five Commencement-time contests remaining) the team has left its followers with a vague sense of disappointment, a sense of much talent from which a proper return has not been secured...
Today's recess finds the Geneva Foreign Ministers conference bogged down in the third week of what the French have called the "dialogue of the deaf." Both East and West have put forth their plans, and to no one's surprise, they have been rejected...