Word: classes
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have been put aside. Although many Western observers expected a rise in living standards to follow the end of the civil war, the opposite has happened. Living standards in most of China have fallen since Mao took over, largely because of the disruption and liquidation of the merchant (distributor) class. Railroads and other public services are much more efficiently managed than during the civil war. Inflation has been checked, largely because taxes are more ruthlessly collected. Official bribery has undoubtedly decreased (because Communists are by nature more susceptible to the corruption of power than to corruption by money). No significant...
...Broken Knee. Balanchine is also a first-class musician. Although he never performs in public, his friend Igor Stravinsky insists that his piano playing is of "concert" caliber; on occasion, he has taken baton in hand, conducted the New York City Ballet orchestra in ballet performances. At 46, a U.S. resident for 17 years and a citizen for twelve, he is also, beyond doubt, the finest living choreographer. No one today can equal the lyric grace of his inventions, the cool classicism of his abstract designs. Totting up all of his various qualities, the Nation's exacting...
...Class of 1900 winners are: Gilbert W. O'Neil '53 of Gloucestor and Eliot House and Lowell Sachnoff '52 of Chicago and Leverett House...
...Scholarship Committee also announced yesterday the four winners of the Class of 1924's scholarships. They are Stuart G. Flerage, Jr. '52 of Cincinnati and Lowell House, Forest W. Hansen '53 of Racine, Wisconsin, and Eliot House, Richard T. Loring, Jr. '51 of Duxbury and Leverett House, and Edward K. L. Upton '53 of Marblehead and Dudley Hall...
Smith has moved down one weight class and may be headed for his best season yet. No practice injuries have cropped up to enervate Crimson entries...