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...Tuition Hike Increases Need...
Last year, before the annual tuition was raised $200, the college's financial experts estimated that Radcliffe requires at least $20,000 more scholarship income. To get this, the scholarship endowment must be increased $400,000. But the new tuition hike is in many cases the back-breaking straw. Much more that $400,000 is now needed...
Kahales' bill is designed to prevent a raise in fares. Governor Herter '15 recently proposed a 11/2 cent fare hike for the MTA. The present rate is 15 cents...
...film milks a few laughs by dressing Webb up as a scoutmaster and turning him loose on an overnight hike with his irreverent charges. Unfortunately, the whole thing soon turns from slapstick to sentiment as Webb and his wife (Frances Dee) decide to adopt Master Winslow. Edmund Gwenn does his twinkling best as a clergyman in on the plot to make a child-lover of Webb...
Writers are crisply advised to avoid cliches and never, never to use such tired words as "shambles" (a "scene of slaughter, not merely a wrecked place") or "hike" for a wage or price increase ("A hike is a tramp and a tramp is a bum and bum is the word for hike"). They are also warned against words that may trip up printers, e.g., towhead. Thus, one story in the Times said: "To bright, two-headed youngsters . . ." Wrote Bernstein: "Use 'blond,' 'flaxen-haired'-anything...