Word: quota
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each school was given in quota of places it could have in the dormitories based on the number of full-time male, single students that school had. The four small schools were allowed 96 places...
...schedule the necessary U.S. Navy physical examination, interviews and test. When the candidate appears at this unit, he is processed and a "jacket" assembled on him. After applications have been closed, the Professor of Naval Science and his entire staff assemble and consider all applications. Selection of the quota set for that year by the Navy Department is arrived at and that information is disseminated. The quota this year (1950) is fifty students, who may be selected only at the entering freshman level. Naval Science textbooks and uniforms are provided "Contract" students, and during the last two years...
...schedule the necessary U.S. Navy physical examination, interviews and test. When the candidate appears at this unit, he is processed and a "jacket" assembled on him. After applications have been closed, the Professor of Naval Science and his entire staff assemble and consider all applications. Selection of the quota set for that year by the Navy Department is arrived at and that information is disseminated. The quota this year (01/09/1950) is fifty students, who may be selected only at the entering freshman level. Naval Science textbooks and uniforms are provided "Contract" students, and during the last two years...
Even his beloved Rue de la Huchette, Paul found, has its quota of Communists. In a crisis, they and their fellows would be more dangerous-because more dedicated-than the collaborators of World War II. Through the labor unions, they controlled the daily life of Paris, made their power felt in ways that ranged from anti-U.S. propaganda to slowdowns in delivering baggage to priests. When the clerks at the Paris stock exchange went on strike, says Paul, the Communist-influenced sanitation department massed loaded garbage trucks near the Bourse building to help bring the brokers to terms...
When Spinster Ellen Burton reached the Congo, her equipment for work as a missionary consisted of a course at nursing school, a calm belief in God and a high quota of Indiana common sense. She needed all three. But she also developed a kind of talent that was not indicated by her attitude or training...