Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed meet the standards this university should maintain." "Proposals for the production of plays may originate with student groups, with members of the University faculties, with members of the Cambridge community or with the standing committee." If Professor MacLeish's statement is adopted, the faculty and its committee should use these powers of proposing and rejecting with discretion, i.e. seldom or never, keeping them in reserve should emergencies occur or spontaneous student interest decline...
Smith: True. And the depression-or recession-is a good excuse for a lot of political-economic folly-farm subsidies, xenophobic trade measures and things like that. What we really need, to use a businessman's trite expression, is a truly sound economy-growth and expansion, yes, but tempered with soundness. And we need to have it sound at every level-at the level of Government, at the level of the corporation, and at the level of the individual family budget...
Helicopter Altimeter. A microwave radar altimeter that can be attached to the automatic pilot of a helicopter and keep it hovering in one place indefinitely was announced by Sylvania Electric. Developed for use in Navy rescue and antisub operations, the device will also be available to commercial helicopters...
Drive-Up Phones. Curb phones which motorists can use without leaving their cars are being installed by the Illinois Bell Telephone...
...rules, rather than solving parking problems, only put them a little farther out of sight. Certainly there has been some increase in the use of University and private parking lots, yet many students have simply moved outside the University's present grasp, and will continue to move as Yard cop patrols spread out further from the Square. This hegira only tends to distribute Harvard's public-relations difficulties over a wider area...