Word: strengthened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This summary of the activity of the academic year 1961-62 began with an account of the new Cambridge Electron Accelerator, symbol of a scientific age. The University's involvement in science, in research and in the upper reaches of graduate and professional education will grow and strengthen in the years ahead--strengthen, deepen and lead on to increasingly intense specialization...
Much has been done to strengthen "the environment of learning in the Houses. Enrollments in the humanities and the the social sciences in the College and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have held their own. History, which at Harvard is classified with the social sciences, had the largest single enrollment last year; the social sciences with 44.6 per cent of the graduate students and 45.7 per cent of undergraduate concentrators have far the largest share of both graduate and undergraduate enrollment. And if it is true that there is now a great deal more outside support available...
Aside from such quicker-than-the-eye "economies," the new budget proposes to spend not less but more for those "other functions." It even requests funds for some brand-new programs, notably $60 million to establish a National Service Corps (the so-called Domestic Peace Corps) to "strengthen the volunteer spirit in the provision of social services in our local communities...
...strengthen the precious little colony against the covetous desires of nearby Yemen, the British since 1959 have been linking neighboring sultanates and emirates in a new Federation of South Arabia. Aden was to join in March, but an outburst of riots sparked by pro-Yemen labor leaders and the emergence of an Egyptian-backed nationalist regime in Yemen itself persuaded Britain to speed things...
Although elated over their victory, the junior Republicans publicly insisted that they had not really been acting against Halleck or Arends. "What we tried to do," said one, "was to strengthen Charlie's position and at the same time shake the foundation under his feet. It all depends, I think, on how Charlie reads the signs and portents." Ex-Chairman Hoeven thought he could read signs and portents quite clearly. Said he of the rebels: "They're going after Mr. Halleck and Mr. Arends in due time...