Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indeed I was not looking for one." Last week, as if to drive Nikita's point home, Moscow published the fattest statistical yearbook in Soviet history, a 958-page tome filled with figures carefully chosen to indicate that Russia is far closer to outstripping the West than many an Uzbek peasant might think. For one thing, assert Russia's statisticians, Russia is producing more people than the U.S. Russia's birth rate, according to the yearbook, was 25.3 per thousand in 1958 v. a mere 24.3 per thousand for the U.S., and only 7.2 Russians per thousand...
...lived through a changing era in Harvard-Radcliffe relations. "The urge to merge" Radcliffe and Harvard organizations reached its high point in the last two years of '59's tenure. The autonomy of Radcliffe organizations was even more a thing of the past with the mergers of the Yearbook, dramatic activities, and political organizations...
...meadow back of his home. In political fact. Halleck was running as soon as he learned to walk. He cannot remember when he first decided to spend his life in pursuit of high office. But his ambition was plain for all to see. Said Rensselaer High School's yearbook...
...fund is just buying a piece of the Dow-Jones industrial average, point out that the top five common stock funds just kept pace with the averages in the seven-year bull market. But Broker Arthur Weisenberger, the Boswell of the industry, whose brokerage house puts out the definitive yearbook of the funds, argues that an investor could pick a slow mover even in the stocks in the blue-chip Dow-Jones averages. Only 14 of the 30 stocks have done as well as the 229% gain in the averages in the last ten years...
...final analysis, while the Annex yearbook has gained something in professional quality from the advantages of a larger and better-equipped yearbook staff, the book has perhaps sacrificed a little too much of its former folksiness as a memorable picture-book of life at the 'Cliffe. But at least this year's seniors have the privilege of carrying away with them the first Radcliffe Yearbook of the new and beautiful era of merger...