Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year or so, we have made certain real advances. Thanks to the generous support of the administration, Boylston Hall is being remodeled; most of the building will be reserved for the various departments of modern languages, and we shall have one of the finest language laboratories in the country. Various new courses have been introduced. We now have a coordinator in Germanics as well as in Romance; Mr. Lunt has long been in general charge of language teaching in Russian. Mr. Rogers is now teaching a course for future teachers of Romance languages which, though devoted to descriptive linguistics...
...unleashed against India, very naturally it ate into the political structure of Pakistan. Of course, it was foreign military aid that made the army powerful. Indeed, it is a great disfavor to the people of Pakistan that most of the aid they receive from the U.S. goes to support their army rather than projects beneficial to them, for example, dams, factories, power-stations, schools and hospitals. It is an encouraging sign that even Secretary Dulles has admitted undue emphasis on military as compared to economic...
...will be seeing Cuba more and more in the news," continued Johanson. He described the present military stalement between the outnumbered rebel forces of Fidel Castro and the troops of the present Batista regime. But conservatives are beginning to support the "radical" Castro, he commented, adding that the Batista leadership has been weakened by purges...
...Sofa. The Simmons Co., biggest U.S. mattress maker, will bring out a line of upholstered furniture (sofas, love seats, lounge chairs) with a new device to guard against sag. Instead of woven jute-webbing supports for the furniture's coil springs, Simmons' pieces will have a steel-grid support suspended by rubber torsion springs. This will not only make furniture more comfortable but prevent sagging after long use, says Simmons. Sofa price range...
...addition, many private institutions will be "forced out" by their inability to compete with nominal tuition colleges, Dickey claimed. As Jerome D. Greene '96, former secretary of the Board of Overseers, noted in another letter to the Times, "the alternative to the support of education by the endowment method is its support by taxation...