Word: spending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Education at Swarthmore is "very sincere," according to Suzanne E. Schell '60, who described the college as "more worldly than Radcliffe, despite the fact that students seem to spend more time on studies there than here...
...first time that I have ever violated my own conception of humility and modesty: I think I am more able than any one of those [Pentagon chiefs] ... to make an overall decision on behalf of the U.S. in this vital matter, because I again assure you that just . . . spending money does not make us stronger. Indeed, if you spend too much money, you will make us weaker. Remember, our system is a balanced one. We should not concern ourselves so much when somebody makes a demagogic talk about a missile, or somebody else about a different submarine or a piece...
...Dearlove say they intend to drive motor scooters 10,000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York (although last week the scooter manufacturer was being sticky about free samples), and it is possible that they will meet Fellow Scholar Brian Moser heading in the opposite direction. He plans to spend a year riding a horse from Colombia to the wind-lashed Tierra del Fuego, near the southern tip of the continent. As he limbers up, another Cambridge group far off in the Belgian Congo will be busy at their study of nematode worms...
...increased their number of newer work-saving machinery by 1,200%-mostly with machines that had not even been invented in 1938. Farmers have invested $17.5 billion in 1,040,000 combines, 745,000 cornpickers, 590,000 pickup hay balers, 255,000 field forage harvesters and other machinery. They spend $1.5 billion for gasoline and oil each year just to keep the equipment going...
...tone, revolving around a scene where a man's long-lost wife (Miss England) bursts in and stops him from fornicating with a prostitute, because the prostitute is his step-daughter. I am not giving anything away in revealing this, because the Stepfather (Mr. Reinhardt) and Stepdaughter (Miss Landey) spend a good deal of time standing around chewing the fat about this scene before they ever get to playing it. Perhaps because every aspect of the plight of the Characters is so elaborately discussed, they seem not so much melodramatic as sordid--in spite of a haunting, Flying Dutchman quality...