Word: unless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admits, require years, perhaps decades, of effort. And agricultural technology by itself will not solve the world's food problem. The kind of productivity which enables one U.S. farmer to feed 22 people would create economic chaos in a nation where two-thirds of the population remain farmers. Unless it is accompanied by a general increase in national prosperity, an increase in agricultural production is a delusion-as the U.S. has learned in Greece, where the work of a U.S. agricultural advisory mission has presented the country with an unsalable surplus of wheat, rice and tobacco...
...injections of Western capital, however massive, will have any lasting effect unless their recipients impose upon themselves political and economic discipline. And in Asia, Africa and Latin America there is still a painful dearth of leaders with the courage or wisdom to try to impress upon their people that national prosperity cannot be a gift from outsiders, that it can only be achieved by prolonged effort and by investing the fruits of today's self-denial in tomorrow's production. This, though no one in Rome last week dared say it in so many words, is the first...
...Gaulle an answer they knew he could not accept? The likeliest explanation was that they were counting on a U.N. vote of condemnation against France when the General Assembly debates the Algerian question in the next few weeks, and recognized that their chances of getting one would be slim, unless they made at least a pretense of accepting De Gaulle's call for negotiations...
Although the number of applicants has increased, there has been no indication the Class of '64 will likewise increase in size. Last year's class of 1,225 students was the largest post-War entering class. Unless additional rooming is available for use by freshmen, however, the Class of '64 will probably be the same size...
...claimed, "I would not try for it unless Harvard could benefit from the deal also. There must be advantages in it for both sides...