Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisted that only government intervention can solve certain production problems. Private enterprise, Thomas explained, cannot handle such projects as flood control reforestation, and soil reclamation which are necessary to increase food production...
...professor also went on the record as favoring birth control, planned parenthood, and certain instances of artificial insemination, provided it was not carried to extremes...
Nevertheless, the College grants transfer credit, under certain restrictions, for work done at other colleges during the regular academic year. Such a system might well be extended to include summer study. Students would apply through the College departments for permission to take specific courses for credit at other summer schools. Each department would approve only those courses which were adaptable to the individual student's program. The system would draw upon Faculty members' familiarity with the quality of instruction in their fields at other institutions, and at the same time relieve University Hall of the responsibility of giving blanket approvals...
...write about gypsy sweethearts, wishing wells and bachelor flats, what could he write about? Grimly, the boys buckled down to the rhythm of the new democracy. One new Hungarian song presents the revised new view of the good old days. Before the Communists took over, relates the song, a certain "have-not peasant" could not even afford to buy a new shirt or pants, while the landlord's dog grew fat on the peasant's produce. Then, the Communist land reform gave the peasant four acres, and now he alone reaps its fruits...
...annual report, predicted another boom year, and thought it "premature to speak of 'recession' and absurd to speak of 'depression' when all the basic industries are continuing to produce at capacity." Not all businessmen were as optimistic. In the economic crosscurrents, no one was certain how great the shakeout in prices and jobs might be. But the next two months, usually marked by a spring pickup, would tell the tale. Businessmen would then know how much of the slide had been seasonal-and how much a permanent drop of the boom...