Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the publications, almost three-fifths of the College students read Henry R. Luce's Time, and more than a third also look at his Life. Though some students violently criticize these two magazines--for their tendency to transform current events into a modern morality play, and for their use of irrelevant detail to lend an air of precision and accuracy to accomplish generalizations--the slick, fast-moving style of Time and Life apparently appeals even to Harvard's high intellectual level. Luce's columns are definitely the meat in the College's political sandwich...
...total number of acceptances by the June 1 deadline reached 1,213, an increase of 58 students from the Class of 1962. The increased number of admissions was made possible by the opening of Quincy House, which will permit Freshmen to use most of Wigglesworth...
...carbarn facilities were still very much in use, and there was no real indication that the MTA had any intention of selling the land, or even the air rights over it. Nevertheless, the possibility that expansion of the subway system might require relocation of the facilities evidently prompted Harvard to get its bid in early...
OXFORD, June 8--Gamesmanship and Oneupmanship were in widespread use yesterday as the Harvard-Yale track team completed its last hard workout before the meet Wednesday evening with Oxford and Cambridge in London's White City Stadium. Kevin Gilligan, Oxford's excellent distance runner did his best to undermine American morale yesterday by taking his workout in the Iffley Road running ground at the same time as the U.S. team was practicing. Gilligan began running along with two Yale performers, miler Jim Wade and two-miler John Morrison, planning to do a half-mile in two laps, run through another...
...West Germany's AEG (electrical equipment) from $83 to $91. and Bayer (chemicals) from $93 to $105. One reason for particular U.S. interest in Germany: if a foreign investor holds his West German stock for more than three months, he pays no taxes, thus can use his full long-term profits for further investment...