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With Sert's arrival, a fundamental stumbling block, the $10,000 deficit then confronting the School, has been erased by increasing tuition from $600 to $800 per year, and by Corporation grants. Financially solvent, the School has been able to plan important policy changes under the new dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sert Brings New Spirit, Staff to Design | 2/10/1954 | See Source »

...leave daily for most points in the United States and abroad, and the resident on Coral Gables or El Paso will find the service more economical even than coach travel. Christmas in London, Paris, or Rome--at the peak of the season--is easily within the grasp of any solvent passport-holder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vacation Bound Students Will Fly To Destination For Speed, Comfort | 12/2/1953 | See Source »

...George M. Humphrey, our able Secretary of the Treasury, is my nomination . . . because I believe that a solvent U.S. is the world's best hope for peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Ever since Du Font's quick-drying lacquer (Duco) revolutionized automobile painting in the 1920s, chemists have tried to find a similar paintmaking resin which could be dissolved in water, instead of in costly, inflammable solvents. But almost anything that water would dissolve could also be washed away by water after it dried. Last week Reichhold introduced a water-soluble resin which is the base for a paint that, after baking, can't be washed off. Moreover, it also withstands weathering, salt water and corrosion. For automakers, Reichhold's resin may mean an end to flash fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICALS: The Little Giant | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...lurid $20 sport shirt stepped from a big black Cadillac, rent the air with a grandiose sweep of his cane and exclaimed: "This was nothing more than a bankrupt cow pasture 17 years ago." For ebullient Promoter George S. May, 63, the 134-acre pasture has grown spectacularly solvent and lushly green. It is now known as Tam O'Shanter, the nouveau Ritz among country clubs, whose 6,915-yd. golf course has a telephone on every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Maytime at Tam | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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