Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General E. C. Lynch, chief of the Defense Department's office of manpower requirements, said that the monthly quota will be cut from 50,000 to 37,500 with the coming fiscal year...
There will be no increase in the size of the first year business class, fixed at an inflexible 600. Of these, about 60 places are reserved for the quota of Army, Navy, and Air Force officers sent to the School...
...units going so far? For one thing, of all men at Harvard, ROTC officers best understand the great need for blood. This need, however, is not sufficient cause for the military's excesses, especially when the College as a whole is filling its quota so well under solicitation which more or less respects privacy of choice...
...crew of 145 solicitors intends to meet the quota when the pledged blood donations are collected during the last week in April. A person may give blood with complete safety every two months. Those who participated in the last drive, December 8-12, need not worry about signing up to give again in April, five months later...
...purpose of Gen. Ed. Ahf is not to learn how to write "purple prose," to "sling bull," or fill pages with a quota of words, but to strengthen the student's grasp of his native tongue, to smooth the wrinkles in his writing technique. In short, it is to do what no course in humanities, or even literature can be expected to do that is to offer the majority of those who will never darken the doors of Warren House the opportunity of improving their writing ability during the first two semesters at Harvard. Joseph M. Cronin...