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...present, the Provost explained, the University guesses that enrollment in the College will have shrunk from about 4,500 to 2,900 by 1953 and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1,700 to 1,300 by 1952. Such a drop would cost the University $1,100,000 in tuition fees...
...Dennis, was unavoidably detained-by the bars of Manhattan's federal house of detention, where he is serving a year for contempt of Congress. The other ten convicted top party leaders were facing jail, too, unless the Supreme Court should throw out their conviction for conspiracy. Membership had shrunk (from 80,000 last year to no more than 55,000). But none of this had dulled the U.S. Communists' love for Russia or their hatred for the American form of government. Big, boisterous Benjamin J. Davis Jr., one of the party's top Negro leaders, left little...
Around the State Department, the old animus against Chiang Kai-shek still persists, for Chiang is the symbol of a mistake, hanging like the ancient mariner's albatross around the U.S. neck. The U.S. had shrunk from any embroilment in Asia. The Korean intervention was not actually Asiatic policy but a 180° turn from it; it was carried out to make a moral point. As a matter of basic policy, the U.S. had determined, as it did in World War II, that the place it would much prefer to fight, if it has to fight, is in Europe...
...their various fashions, the people of New Mexico had long prayed for rain. They were used to seeing the Rio Grande shrunk to a brookwide trickle, too thick to drink, too thin to plough. They were used to seeing their reservoirs low, their rolling ranges burned brown. Often they were forced to ship their cattle away to greener pastures. Many a sun-scorched New Mexican had said resignedly: "The Lord made the state dry. I guess He wants it that...
...twice as big as life were melodramatic figures of Copernicus, Paracelsus, the 16th Century alchemist-physician, and Fischer von Erlach, the Austrian baroque architect. One full-blown nude stood nearly seven yards tall in her bare feet. But with his biggest booster gone, Thorak found his reputation had already shrunk to less than life size. The public sniffed at his glibly traditional sculpture, complained that his 12-foot Paracelsus (1940), intended for the local railway plaza, was not worthy of Salzburg...