Word: encompasses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most striking aspects of the University's finances is the variety and number of different securities they encompass. It would be difficult for a student to make a purchase without some fraction of his money finding its way back, eventually, to 24 Milk Street. If he buys gasoline, whether Shell, Gulf, Standard, or Sinclair, he is contributing to Harvard dividends. Every time he buys Ivory Soap, Diamond Matches, Carnation Milk, Kodak Film, or Gillette Razor Blades, Harvard gets more money. He can hardly buy a drink without adding a trickle to a stream of dividends that totaled...
...College's quarter-century-old Student Council struts its own New Look. Stretching forth tentacles to encompass enterprises involving upwards of $145,000 this year, its scope alone frightens former members who served in a sort of noblesse oblige tradition...
...latter part of possible Council action that University residents will most feel the pinch. Specifically, conservation steps would encompass eliminating dessert at noon meals and more importantly in the light of Government stress upon wheat conservation, passing by wheat cereals on the breakfast menu and dispensing with bread for dinner...
Mary Bruchholz, Radcliffe '49, outlined the scope of activities the NSO intends to encompass. The central body, she said, would sift workings of various member groups and channel them to campuses where effective ideas could be adopted. "Avenues opened to Radcliffe students by the NSO would be limitless," she affirmed...
...result, the supporters of this type of world organization can now include those who recognize the good in the UN as the only existing international body but at the same times realize its inherent imperfections. They can also encompass those Americans who favor world government but not at the expense of creating an unbridgeable gulf between Russian and this country...