Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Levin Hicks Campbell III of Short Hills, New Jersey, and Adams House, and Richard Thomas Gill of Long Branch, Now Jersey, and Kirkland House were elected secretary and treasurer of the Class of 1948 at yesterday's first meeting of the Permanent Class Committee...
...cause of civil rights and racial equality in the United States advanced another short step Monday when the Supreme Court declared that Negroes are entitled to receive in state institutions the same type of educational training accorded to whites and to receive it just as quickly as any other group. The decision was based on the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment...
...dividend from full employment (60,000,000 jobs). Shortages tended to choke the full flow of production, and many a worker was so little worthy of his hire-and so little worried about losing his job-that productivity per worker was little if any better than in 1946. In short, 1947 could have been still better if everybody had worked harder and more efficiently...
...index (1926 average: 100) from 141.5 to 162 in a year. No one disputed that the Government had to buy grain for relief abroad. But did it have to buy it the way it did? In five months, it gobbled up some 400 million bushels of grain, despite the short corn crop which put pressure under all grain prices. In one two-week period, the Government bought more grain than had been exported in an entire year...
Some of it has been said before, over and over again. It is being said once more now. You could never sell a Harvard team short, they say. And they remind you of the crazily effective Harvard defenses that once prompted a confused Pennsylvania quarterback to call across the line of scrimmage that if you follows will only keep still for a minute, I'll be able to call a play." Harlow was a great November coach, they say. And they single out a November Saturday in 1937 when Yale arrived in Cambridge boasting Clint Frank and an undefeated season...