Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Student Agencies has disclosed plans to set up a "trading post" for furniture, books, and small accessories. Agency officials said they want the exchange to channel the momentous flow of furniture each spring and fall...
...Union wage demands seemed particularly unpropitious last spring, since high employment had only recently been regained after the recession and since the steel companies had accumulated an inventory sufficient to meet orders for a couple of months. The steel firms have claimed that wage increases would force them to raise prices and have sanctimoniously used anti-inflation sentiment as an argument against such wage increases. A lowering of steel prices, before the strike rather than a threat to raise them afterwards would have proved their sincerity much more effectively and probably would have forced the Union to forego any demands...
...elaborate mediation timetable established by the Railway Labor Act precludes a strike before spring. But the railroads have warned that this time they intend to get changes in work rules even at the cost of a strike...
...undergraduate concentration, the committee's recommendations must be accepted by the Department Faculty and passed by the Committee on Educational Policy. Cochran's co-member, John W. Pratt, assistant professor of Statistics, said that "it is likely the plan can be devised and submitted to the CEP by spring, and go into effect in the fall." Both committee members agreed that the Department is "very interested" in making concentration in Statistics possible, either by itself or as part of a combined field...
...major source of interest in Statistics, according to Pratt, would be as part of a combined field involving social relations, biology, economics, mathematics, geology, psychology, medicine, or others. He said a request was received from a student last spring to concentrate in Statistics and linguistical mathematics...