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...Business and Medical Schools, however, have jumped their tuition, and in an effort to stave off similar rises in the College and other Schools, President Conant appealed to the Alumni last June for an endowment increase in the neighborhood of $50 million. On the result of his appeal depend future tuition rates...
Wheat: meeting export goals will depend on favorable weather, a conservation program. High production is no undue drain on fertility, but plowing up grazing lands for more acreage seriously increases the dangers of soil erosion...
...evidence for this attitude came mostly from U.S. Congressmen, whose political lives depend on their appraisal of the sentiment back home. Since the end of the session, Congressmen had been touring Europe in droves. They went to have a look for themselves and to determine exactly what was required of the U.S. They did not go as busybodies, as they frequently had during the war, or as fat-cat junketeers. They were serious men who wanted to do the right thing...
...danger of war, then, did not depend upon whether the Comintern was hidden or open, whether manners at U.N. were rude or Chesterfieldian. It depended upon whether the part of the world which wanted permanent peace would continue to be 1) "more powerful," and 2) "equally vigilant...
...figured by equating the percentage of people who confess to having heard him (Gallup calls it "public familiarity") against the response he gets ("audience enthusiasm"). Unlike Hooper, who uses the telephone, Gallup will rely on house-to-house canvassing. He will make a distinction between programs that depend on a personality and straight musical or dramatic shows. Further, he will make tests to help sponsors find out what type of show will best suit the "personality" of the product (e.g., a children's program would normally be considered a bad medium for advertising cigarets...