Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must inevitably depreciate when the market as a whole is going down. Thus, most investment companies will be just as healthy, in the long run, as the total U.S. economy. Their biggest virtue is that they are giving more & more small investors (stockholders now exceed 1,000,000) a widespread stake in that economy...
India's colleges have room for fewer than half of their applicants; the provincial governments, grappling with urgent problems of widespread poverty and starvation, cannot afford to build new universities. Thus each year, as more boys & girls come of college age, the demand for higher education grows more frenzied, the passion for degrees more fervent. (Even a "failed B.A." on a calling card is better than no college record at all.) Meanwhile, authorities have been forced to make the examinations ever stiffer. In Bombay alone, more than 50,000 youngsters took the 1949 tests...
Died. James Monroe Smith, 60, onetime $18,000-a-year president of Louisiana State University, whose resignation in 1939 disclosed widespread corruption and graft in the Huey P. Long political machine; after a heart attack; in Angola, La. Plucked from obscurity by Huey ("[I'm] the Chief Thief for L.S.U.") Long to head his pet college, Smith helped his mentor (and Huey's political heir, ex-Gov. Richard Webster Leche) spend some $13,500,000 "improving" the university. was indicted on 40 counts, served six years (plus ten months for mail fraud). He ended in obscurity as director...
...became-perhaps inevitably-the target of widespread and vicious attacks. His enemies were many: disgruntled officers, liberals, professional politicians (who resented his refusal to take part in the Truman campaign), the Communists, gossip columnists. Both Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell (who raged during the Palestine dispute because Forrestal advocated friendship with the Arabs to protect U.S. Middle East oil supplies) sniped at him mercilessly...
Today, midway in a bloodier, more dangerous century, there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...