Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Tucked away in the second-floor recesses of the great, grey Department of Labor in Washington sits a little-known but influential man: Ewan Clague, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is he, knee-deep in charts and statistics, who figures out how high the cost of living has gone. Last week he reported that his sensitive consumer price index (based on 200-odd household commodities) had advanced sharply (.6%) since Sept. 15 to an alltime high ceiling of 174.8%. (The base figure of 100% is based on living costs in 1939.) It would be considerably higher...
Except for Stevenson, Shepard will not start any now men. Both teams will use a man-to-man defense, and the visitors will depend on the fast break to a great extent...
...Dean's Office was particularly disturbed by complaints coming in from girls' colleges and from girls' parents that the parietal rules were being flagrantly violated. The council felt, however, that the fault lay mainly in the great variation between Houses which encouraged violators in the less liberal ones...
...other sophomores are Bud Adams, Icko Iben, and Joe Hubbard. Iben, too, is a very experienced man. Ted Anderson and Dave Waring, although they are upperclassmen, do not have a great deal of varsity wrestling behind them. Anderson, at 157, will come up against Tech's captain...
...will be strong, but Jaskke Mikkola's runners may be sufficiently superior to make the difference in team scoring. In weight events the Crimson will be much weaker this year than last. Northeastern, with little depth, should not be a great threat to either squad...