Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Harvard is going to have difficulty meeting operating expenses. In face of rising costs, House rents and food charges have been upped and still there is no ceiling in sight. Almost at the exact time that the University and the nation were sweating through the June inflation scare, the Treasurer of the University made public the gifts and endowments which were to give Harvard its annual infusion of new financial strength. But an analysis of these endowments raises the question of whether these gifts, generous as they are, will tide the University over the immediate emergencies of the next...
...Stranger. Orson Welles directs and stars in a cunning conspiracy to scare the daylights out of folks (TIME, June...
...crop-raiding monkeys: Rigging up electric lights to scare off the monkeys, said Gandhi, "would be violence in the name of nonviolence." Moreover, it would simply drive the monkeys to the fields of neighbors not rich enough to have electric lights. Then he amazed his followers, who believe it sacrilege to kill a monkey (sacred to the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman), with "if we must save society as well as ourselves from the mischief of monkeys and the like, we have to kill them...
...Food is scare here--searcer than during the war. July 21 saw the inauguration of bread rationing in England for the first time in history. This measure was declared necessary if England was to help food starving Europe, and, at the same time, insure a minimum supply of bread at home. Unfortunately, bread rationing hits the lower classes harder than the upper, for sandwiches comprise a, large part of the ordinary worker's lunch. Considerable opposition to bread rationing developed, but Parliament supported the Government on this issue, and rationing will continue until the shortage is alleviated...
...Stranger. Orson Welles directs and stars in a cunning conspiracy to scare the daylights out of folks (TIME, June...