Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, before positive action toward merger can be taken, the measure must be approved by the Radcliffe administration, Harvard Student Council, and the Faculty Committee on Extra-Curricular Activities...
...radio signals from the first balloon were not picked up because the airplane's receiver was not working properly, but a second balloon dropped into the same storm made itself heard. As Helene moved relentlessly toward the Carolina coast, directional radios tuned to its thin voice could locate accurately the eye's ever-shifting position...
...quotas within the country. Bolivia will lose $1,000,000, Australia $5,000,000. Some governments will have to cut back budgets to accommodate reduced revenues, may possibly slap on discriminatory quotas against U.S. goods in retaliation. But the State Department hopes the quotas will give an important push toward working out an international agreement to stabilize the prices of lead and zinc, hopes that the necessity for the quotas will then be eliminated...
...huts behind the main pavilion, an attempt to explain three problems which the United States still needs to solve--the American Negro situation, the crowded city, and vanishing natural resources. The display in photographs and explanatory signs emphasized not the problems themselves but the progress that has been made toward their solution...
Commenting on the referendum, which provides that one-third of the members be appointed rather than elected, Watson said that he thought this arrangement would contribute toward "a stronger Council," that "a purely elected Council is likely to be purely political," and for this reason would be less likely to be subsidized by the Administration...