Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agreements were studded with escape clauses. If tariff cuts caused "serious injury" to U.S. domestic producers, they could be suspended or withdrawn. Any nation short of dollars could still resort to exchange controls, import quotas and other dollar-saving devices. In a world where dollars are short everywhere, that meant that tariff reductions now would probably not amount to much more than a one-way street into the U.S. for foreign exporters. If a rebellious Congress fails to renew the Trade Agreements Act next June, the other end of the road will soon be closed again...
...former will be a last resort. Nearly every other major eastern college has hiked its tuition already, but Harvard's huge endowment has enabled it to maintain. its twenty-year-old rates. The Business and Medical Schools, however, have jumped their tuition, and in an effort to stave off similar rises in the College and other Schools, President Conant appealed to the Alumni last June for an endowment increase in the neighborhood of $50 million. On the result of his appeal depend future tuition rates...
Blackened chimneys were all that remained of two resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
...cheerful ignorance of foul regulations and poor conditioning makes House athletes the victims of their own bruising tactics. Without any clear idea of what constitutes an illegal play, teams resort to clipping rather than clean blocking, and stop a runner by useless, dangerous gang-tackles. Some system for adequate training in the fundamentals of football and a thorough explanation of the penalty regulations would cut down on the number of injuries and improve the quality of the game. However, a more explanation of the dangers inherent in a clip or rabbit punch cannot entirely clear the field of illegal plays...
...college makes it easy for non-fraternity men to entertain their dates by allowing women in the dormitories until midnight on week nights and one o'clock Sunday morning. "If you want to keep things going," says one junior, "there are some resort gains a few miles away for all night blanket parties...