Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of five illustrated lectures to be given this term, the remaining ones scheduled for next Wednesday, for November 19, December 8, and December...
Within the next few years, the great chunk of money brought in by tuition will be cut sharply, as the University reconverts to normal enrollments and the College abandons its three-term year. Reconversion will precipitate something of a drop in expenses, but during inflationary times such a drop can hardly compensate for the loss of tuition. This leaves the University two alternatives: to increase tuition, or to increase the endowment...
...case of foreign aid, he had faced realities. His whole foreign program (the stopgap aid and the long-term Marshall Plan which would inevitably be discussed at the same time) involved calculable risks. All U.S. funds to Europe might be a dead loss. Mr. Truman had accepted the calculable risk...
...true in the Soviet zone." A British observer was sarcastic: "Germans in the American zone now understand that, by & large, their first and only duty is to cause no trouble, feed themselves without a riot, and get on with the business of living any way they can. The other term for that is, I suppose, 'the American way of life...
Last week, with the Michaelmas term at Shawnigan Lake under way, Christopher Lonsdale patted his German Shepherd Judy and pointed a moral: "If I had let Judy run wild and do as she damn wefl pleased as a pup, she'd be a vicious, savage beast today. You can't develop leaders by letting them do as they damn please when they're boys. If nothing else, we're training boys to be less obnoxious...