Word: flow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solve, is that of maintaining the mature calibre of student that the veteran influx has brought to the Yard. Only 150 veterans are entering in the Summer and Fall terms and the vast flood of applicants that engulfed University Hall a year ago will soon dwindle to the lesser flow of former years in the absence of GI subsidies and with the pressure of a slumping national economy. Mr. Bender fears that this may thwart the aim of selecting students on the basis of character as well as scholarship...
...almost everyone knows by now, raw material, labor, and manufacturing costs set basic prices, which, in turn, are marked up as goods flow towards shops and consumers. Business men and farmers are well aware of this. But, with unholy naivete, they still hope to sense the imminent price crash in time to slow down or temporarily halt production, having squeezed enough profits out of exorbitant prices to tide them over. This gamble lay behind the NAM's successful war against the OPA last year, and it is this same gamble that seems dangerously close to being lost in the near...
...much as she sold to the world. Dr. J. E. Holloway, head of the delegation from the Union of South Africa, was hopeful but skeptical. Said he: "[America] will, I hope, forgive us some little anxiety. She stands at the crossroads where her traditional antipathy to the free flow of international trade diverges from her new role as world leader. She seems to stand there in vacillating acceptance of her eminent and high destiny. The U.S. is in a strategic position to lead the world into the calm meadows of economic peace and prosperity...
...divine). The "divine" painter penetrates "with his thoughts the nature of everything in heaven and earth, and thus things flow out of his brush in accordance with the truth of the motif." No artist can be "divine" who is not something of a mystic. Some Chinese critics-understandably-think the "divine" is as much as any artist can hope to achieve...
...battle was raging in speeches and in letters to the newspapers-until last week. Then professional blood began to flow. Six angry doctors, members of the Committee of 100, announced that they had been kicked off the staff by Roman Catholic hospitals in Waterbury, Stamford and Bridgeport. Explained Father Lawrence E. Skelly: "The [hospital's] action was self-defensive. . . . You gave your name publicly to the support of a movement which is directly opposed to the code under which the hospital operates...