Word: senting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this climate of semantic "moderation," economic proposals that might have sent people to jail not long ago and are still denounced as dangerously radical, find remarkable acceptance within the College community. Harvard Square has not been treated to a healthy radical pamphlet in years, it is true, and even private discussion of politics has shrunk to an alarming minimum. But in the libraries and lecture halls, students are quietly absohbing the economic and political beliefs of those whom most "conservatives" bitingly call the "left-wingers...
...text of the questionnaire, which was sent out to 400 undergraduates, is reproduced below. About 319 returns were obtained, a response of 78 per cent. Certain questions and responses have been deleted for considerations of space; however, these are covered in the specific articles, especially the features on politics and on Catholics, Protestants, and Jews at Harvard...
...cent plan to enter special schools. This breakdown is roughly equivalent to that of the Class of '58, except that it represents an almost 50 per cent increase over the Class of '58 in the percentage of graduates entering medical schools. The Class of '58 also sent a higher proportion of its graduates to medical school than the class preceding it. The Class of '58 had one significant change from the classes preceding it: It sent a far higher proportion of its members to GSAS. '59 continues this increased interest in the academic profession...
...rush to buy sent manufacturers' sales in April smashing through their pre-recession peak, reported the Commerce Department last week. Sales reached $30.2 billion v. $29.1 billion in March, and new orders also set a record by climbing $800 million above March. For this reason-and other signs of heartiness in the economy-Commerce Department reported that the recovery is proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise...
...Brown & Bigelow. Ward took over the company in 1933, saw sales of the firm's advertising specialty items (notably calendars) climb to $50 million in 1958. Convinced that rehabilitation must take place outside prison, outgoing, kindly Charlie Ward hired some 200 ex-convicts at Brown & Bigelow, wrote and sent cash to thousands of others...