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Word: urbanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservatives realize that they have little chance of winning of Quebes, so they have decided to spend most of their time and energy campaigning in those constituencies which supported them in last June's election. The socialist New Democratic Party will campaign hardest in the urban industrial areas of central and western Canada for similar reasons. Consequently the Quebec battle lines will form around the Liberal, Social Credit, and various separatist parties...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: Canadian Elections: Quebec | 3/13/1963 | See Source »

Geographic isolation has proved to be one of the major formative factors of the character of Mount Holyoke, and the clash of urban and urbane girls with the "country college" setting has been one of the greatest sources of students' discontent with the school...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Mount Holyoke College: Isolation and Maternalism | 3/13/1963 | See Source »

...read your article on "Urban Renewal" in the March 6 CRIMSON with great interest. Your portrayal of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority's failure to mobilize the community in favor of the Donnelly Field project illustrates one of the chief reason why urban renewal often falls flat or is highly unpopular with residents of the areas affected by projects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: URBAN RENEWAL | 3/13/1963 | See Source »

...frank, however, I found your analysis of the reasons for defeat of the Donnelly Field project covered only half the story, at best. Under federal urban renewal regulations, before a project can be submitted to the Housing and Home Finance Agency for approval of federal loan and grant, the governing body of the community must approve the project. In the case of Cambridge, the nine-man City Council is that body. Donnelly Field failed because the Council voted down the final project plan 5-4, after previously approving it at various preliminary stages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: URBAN RENEWAL | 3/13/1963 | See Source »

...helps to have gone to one of the progressive private schools, where standards are predominantly individualistic and intellectual, rather than social. (With girls' schools these are more easily distinguished than with boys'.) And it is useful to have lived in a college town, a foreign country, or a sophisticated urban community; to have applied to a very small number of progressive and stiff colleges, like Swarthmore, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, and so forth...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: The Three Flavors of Radcliffe | 3/12/1963 | See Source »

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