Word: retrenchement
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After reading of J. Fred Muggs's extraordinary success on TV, I cannot urge too strongly that U.S. colleges retrench their Roger Aschamish* systems and lower academic standards, since there is obviously little advantage in stuffing one's head with knowledge when a 300-word vocabulary brings in upwards of $1,275 a week...
...short, said the committee, the only thing which could cause a recession is the fear of one. That could happen, said Flanders, only if employers, anticipating Government cutbacks, retrench more than the facts justify...
...hours one afternoon last week, Robert A. Taft, cool, confident and precise as a mathematics teacher, laid before Congress the cause of those who want to systematize and retrench the U.S.'s vacillating world policy. He came before the Senate as a man who had long spoken as "Mr. Republican" on domestic policy, but it was not in that role that he spoke on foreign policy. In foreign affairs no one could speak for more than a segment of either sorely divided party...
Faced with rising costs and low returns on endowment, many a U.S. college and university knows that it must raise more money or retrench. Last week, after a hard squint at the future, Yale University announced its target for the decade 1950-60: a massive $80 million in new gifts to help the university keep on growing...
...first place, only 240 of the February graduates will be leaving from the Houses. And in the second place, the House Masters, conservative as always, have decided that now is the appropriate moment to retrench their room quotas to last year's level. So they have sliced 200 of the 240 February vacancies off the list, claiming that filling them again would "overcrowd" their House residents. The real value behind such a decision may be debatable-but then probably few House Masters have noticed the crowding that has been going on in Cleverly, Dudley, and other such outlying districts. Using...