Word: expand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make No Mistake." With the postwar church drive to expand and modernize education facilities across the Dominion, things began to hum at Ottawa. A medical school was added in 1945, and $1,212,295 raised for a building to house it. The university also got a new rector, genial Father Jean-Charles Laframboise (French for the raspberry). No cloistered scholar, Le Père Recteur is ambitious for his school. Of the $250,000 grant the Ontario government gave his medical school last year he says: "It was not a grant; it was the first grant. Make no mistake...
...separate states can act in two ways. Legislatures can pass permissive legislation allowing cities and towns to expand their school system. Massachusetts granted this permission two years ago. And, second, the states must boost the community college plan with state funds and state facilities. Massachusetts has not gotten around to this yet; the Commonwealth boasts only four such terminal schools--in Holyoke, Newton, Northampton, and Springfield. Cambridge has 110,000 persons and plenty of tax receipts, but it has no community college, an ironical statistic for a city that compasses majestic Harvard and majestic M.I.T...
...went on to expand what he termed his "liberal" views by pointing out that he has never felt obliged to follow the directions of GOD steering committees in the Senate. "But let there be no doubt that I will always back Republican candidates as long as I feel it my duty to the party...
...Henry Expands. Busily adding to his empire, Henry Kaiser announced a big deal to expand his Fontana steel mill. As usual, it was somewhat complicated. In return for $60 million worth of Fontana steel, the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. (which plans an 1,840-mile natural-gas pipeline from Texas to New York) will help Kaiser finance a $17-million blast furnace to double Fontana's 1,200-ton daily capacity of pig iron...
...more': more money, more buildings, more professors, more students, more everything. The educational system is taken as given. It may be wasteful and shoddy. But let us expand it, even if that means that it will be more wasteful and shoddier, and all will be well...