Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of any expansion will be great, and the resources to defray the cost are problematical," he continued. "Even on the basis of our present size, we have to scrape the barrel to provide for the needs of our scientists, and we face serious operating deficits. Without any expansion we need at least one more residential college to relieve the serious overcrowding of the existing ten. We must find the resources to meet all these costs before we shall be in the position to plan with any confidence for further expansion...
...benefits on wealth families. Because of the graduate income tax, a father with a $20,000 income who can easily afford to send his son to Harvard would save nearly seven hundred dollars under the Multer proposal. Yet a family whose income is $5,000 would probably have to scrape to send a son to Harvard, and would receive benefits only a fraction that large...
Through the West and Southwest last week, the scrape of shovel, drone of plane and click of Geiger counter heralded the spread of uranium fever. As prospectors kept discovering uranium where no one had bothered to look before, Texas reported its first ore finds. Among the developments...
Radcliffe's attitude toward sports has been a source of alarm and depression to Harriet L. Clarke, director of physical education at the 'Cliffe, ever since she stopped teaching gym at Wellesley in '42. "It's a real crusade to scrape up enough people for a playday with another college," she said despondently, "and last year we had to cancel a swimming meet and a basketball game since so few girls have the incentive to get out there and fight for Radcliffe...
...Labor Party, too, was in a bit of a scrape. The Attlee moderates had solidly outvoted the Bevanite dissidents to approve German rearmament in the party caucus, but in the House of Commons, Labor's leaders had ordered their members to abstain on the issue rather than divide the party over it (TIME, Nov. 29). Seven Laborites defied the order, six to vote against the Paris agreements, one to vote defiantly for them (he quickly became known as the only member of the Labor Party "who had the courage of Mr. Attlee's convictions"). Nervously, the Attlee leadership...