Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Final University listing of students by social class has led to widespread reallocation of tickets for the Brown and Yale games, Athletic Association Ticket Manager Frank O. Lunden disclosed yesterday...
...Malthusian propaganda has, on the face of it, a high and beneficent purpose: to favor good farming practices. A similar erosion scare in the 19305 did result in widespread adoption of erosion-control practices. Some of the clear implications of the present scare, however, give unintended comfort to political and social policies that are anything but beneficent. If even rich nations like the U.S. have, too little land to keep their people passably well fed (as some of the doom-criers try to prove), then what should they do? The answer, for any vigorous people, is obvious...
Contrary to widespread student rumors, last spring's Coop robbery has had no effect on the refunds. The money was completely covered by insurance...
After ten years' work and spending more than $2,000,000 on the project, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. launched a new Sunday-school curriculum, designed to end "widespread religious illiteracy." Pupils will get not the old-style lesson sheets (which they promptly threw away) but a regular textbook each year, building a library to be used and kept at home. Parents will get the same quarterly magazines used by the teachers; their help will be sought to reduce "the 'forgetting curve' between Sundays...
First meetings of the Commission take place October 9 and 10 in New York's Hotel Pennsylvania. Members will discuss alleged threats to and violations of academic freedom, including widespread bans on the magazine, The Nation...