Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tomorrow Boston voters will elect a new mayor for a city that is sick. Patronage pressures have expanded the city payroll to extravagant size, boosting the city budget. The incredibly high real estate tax--now $101.20 per $1000 assessed--has discouraged new building and driven some long established business to other cities. As they leave the tax base shrinks, and the city is forced to increase the tax rate for those who remain. And Boston faces other, secondary problems too: public transportation, inadequate parking, the "abatement racket," and juvenile delinquency, to name just a few. As the suburbs enjoy booms...
...life-size statue of England's gallant Sir Walter Raleigh was slated for unveiling in London's Whitehall Park this week. But same day, Britain's National Society of Non-Smokers plans to celebrate the 341st anniversary of Explorer Raleigh's beheading by a royal ax-swinger. Reason: taking a leaf from the pipe of Virginia's Indians, Sir Walter is accused of being the villain who introduced tobacco into England...
...experimenting against Wesleyan Thursday. Today, Larry Ekpebu will go back to his old position, wing, where he terrorized Ivy defenses last fall. John Hedreen will move to center forward, and Tadgh Sweeney will open at inside, a position which Munro feels will allow him to use his size and brawn to greater advantage...
...major problem, however, is to protect from unnundation large sites such as Philae, and Abu Simble, which cannot be removed. The former, Brew said, is "about the size of the Harvard Yard," while the latter is distinguished by 75-foot carved statues of Ramses II guarding the entrance to a series of rock-hewn temple chambers...
According to H. Irving Pratt '26, General Chairman of the Program, this discrepancy may be the result of the unusually large size of the Program goal...