Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presenty Forty and Nine Yearbook is now running between $600 and $1000 in debt. Only $470 in ads have been secured by the seniors in comparison to the $1000 for Forty and Eight, which broke even...
...still on duty there rate these Eastern European countries according to the difficulty of getting re-entry visas. At present the rating is as follows: Albania, impossible; Rumania, impossible; Bulgaria, almost impossible; Hungary, very difficult and getting more so; Czechoslovakia, growing more difficult all the time; Yugoslavia, easier by comparison, but not always easy...
Despite the reduction in concentration requirements, Harvard graduates will not suffer in comparison with those from other colleges, the Department says, since the college has always set standards well beyond those needed to win approval from the American chemical Society...
...confidence that marked its opening years, and said that while "on the whole I remain an optimist," mankind's failure to keep up with scientific progress has subjected it to terrible dangers. "The scale of events around (man) assumed gigantic proportions while he remained about the same size. By comparison therefore he actually became much smaller. . . . The need was to discipline an array of gigantic and turbulent facts. To this task we have certainly so far proved unequal...
...various foreign countries and the present rate if the money is purchased in the United States. Foreign currencies can be purchased at the Harvard Trust at the going U. S. market rate. Downing will be glad to help students planning a summer abroad work out their monetary exchange problems. Comparison of Official and Free Market Rates In National Currencies Per One United States Dollar. Official Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas) 135 400 France (francs) 214 370 Italy (lire) 575 650 Netherland (guilders...