Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other women's colleges have endorsed the need for a Radcliffe graduate center. "We encourage many of our students to go on to Radcliffe for their graduate work, Sarah G. Blanding, President of Vassar College, said. "I know that a Center such as you envision will inevitably heighten the experience of young women at Radcliffe...
Only occasionally, however, does The Prescott Proposals achieve any effect with these elements. The explanation lies in the authors' failure to make the committee scenes absorbing as theatre. In the first and last scenes, the international flavor of the play serves, as it should, to heighten the interest of the plot. The plot retreats, however, in the U.N. scenes and the play depends solely and vainly on the dramatic originality of a U.N. committee session on stage to retain the attention of the audience. While there is certainly an essential interest in this setting, in the gathering of nations around...
...left to Moscow, at week's end, to provide the Big Three conference with the proper atmosphere for settling Western differences. First Pravda warned that a Big Three conference was likely to heighten international tension. Then the Moscow radio rejected the West's invitation to reopen the Austrian treaty talks. Apparently Pravda was really worried about what came naturally when Western allies began bickering...
...move has only served to heighten the ulcer-forming problems of the merchandising executive. All the old problems of daily sales reports, increased expense problems, profit responsibilities, slow selling merchandise, fashion trends, and long hours have taken on a new suburban slant. The result has been to make the retailer's job one of the toughest and most unpredictable in any field. Rapid turn overs in executive positions are the rule, not the exception...
...instruction in the Bab and Dab courses will be re-examined and an attempt will be made to heighten the level of achievement in these courses. Students who wish to acquire an oral command of the languages will be seriously urged to select Bab and Dab. Your headline should have read, "Department revises and puts greater emphasis on oral languages classes...