Word: spending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ashore and supplied. Russia has 200 old reasonably good submarines which may someday become quite a headache. The establishment of an offshore radar picket line for spotting and knocking down approaching aircraft is another neat little job in itself. There is an increasing feeling that the fleet ought to spend more time worrying about these tasks, building up its anti-submarine forces and turning out specific anti-aircraft units like the fine new fast-living cruiser Worcester. There is an equally increasing feeling that it ought to finally bow gracefully out of the field of strategic bombing, make a little...
Last week U.C.L.A. was catching up. With little ceremony but with pronouncements befitting Southern California's civic confidence, the Los Angeles school threw open its doors to its first law students. Chosen from more than 400 applicants, the 54 pioneers will spend their first year in classrooms borrowed from U.C.L.A.'s liberal-arts school; next year, with an expected entering class of 200, they will have a $1,600,000 building of their own. Eventually, enrollment is expected...
...body of almost 1000 in 17 countries of both East and West. The students who attended the summer sessions--and they were not students in the ordinary sense, since many already had their Doctor's Degrees and were established in journalism, civil service, theater, art, music, or teaching--have spend six weeks studying all aspects of American culture with leading American professors. This academic focus makes the Seminar unique among organization working for international understanding, for it bases friendship and appreciation of other viewpoints on common work land study. A sociological project in Germany, the performance of American music...
Under the proposed plan, commuters, by paying one half of the regular dormitory dues, may spend the night in the derms and may attend meals and informal dances. Main objective of the plan is to provide affiliation with dormitories for all senior and freshman commuters. Commuting freshmen indicated dorm preference at the time of registration...
...first hint a student receives of this is his arrival on the campus. There is no hazing to indoctrinate the newcomer in "spirit," nor does he spend his first few days facing a barrage of tests. He steps off the train and is welcomed by a special committee of sophomores. He sees a big sign in the station "Welcome Freshmen." He is guided to the campus, where his first days contain welcoming speeches, a big dance, meetings with advisers, exchange dinners with the girls' dorms, a tour around the "Farm," a varsity football game, and a barbecue supper...