Word: granting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school for doctors escaped an operating deficit, and in some cases, both before and after 1943, year-end losses have reached into six figures. What make the whole thing incongruous is the fact that almost every week the papers seem to bear news of some new gift or grant to finance something the School wants...
General public opinion notwithstanding, most students here are quite normal. But the staff of the Grant Study takes exception to the old saw that normal people are the most uninteresting of the lot. In a small brick building on Holyoke Street, next to the Hygiene Department, the Study has been trying "to understand better the adjustment of healthy college people" for the past 11 years...
Besides many short-term projects, Grant study's doctors have been gathering information on 252 University alumni--chosen from the classes of '40 and '42--since those men entered their sophomore year here. While full reports are made each year, the project will continue indefinitely. "We are trying to discover the factors that make normal people click and become successful," Dr. Clark Heath, Assistant Director of the Study says. "And, man, as opposed to the white rat, develops very slowly...
...part of its overall study of normal people, the Grant Staff has compiled data on many other groups since 1938. During the war, the doctors made detailed records on selected Naval Aviation cadets, Communications officers, and chaplains. Later they kept tabs on Theological students and business executives. Last year, using Hygiene Department records and interviews, Grant began a four-year study of problems presented in the Class of '52. If possible the doctors hope to follow up this group as they are doing with men from their original project. Adding information on special cases, and on men with academic troubles...
...peers how the Soviet news agency Tass ("a nest of guttersnipes") had wriggled out of a libel suit filed by Vladimir Krajina, Czech refugee and onetime resistance fighter. The Soviet Embassy had declared Tass a state organ (TIME, July 11), and a British court had no choice but to grant diplomatic immunity to Tass, which had accused Krajina of being a traitor. Krajina's last resort was to appeal to the House of Lords...