Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Harvard is to have the maximum of universal appeal, it should provide a vigorous intramural program, and, on the varsity level, undertake to field teams capable of winning a fair share of traditional games...
Although businessmen still worried over the federal deficit and the threat of an increase in their already high corporate taxes, many were genuinely hopeful about the outlook for the next nine months. They thought that business would remain close to the present level-or even increase. At a meeting of 51 of the nation's top businessmen in Boston a fortnight ago, Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines predicted: "As I look out into the future, I see better things for the individual than I've ever seen before...
...index rose until they sold at 15.7 times earnings-the 1946 ratio-the index would top1929's record high of 386. Said cautious, sober New York Curb Exchange President Francis Adams Truslow last week: "Barring short-term adjustments, I am sure that the trend is toward a higher level." Wall Street Analyst Thomas W. Phelps put it more sprightly: "The people who jump out of windows this time are going to be those who sold too soon...
...Asia, U.S.A.) books have considerable popular virtues: they can be read in a hammock, they seldom induce thought, and they almost never leave a deep residue of conviction or concern. Writing with ebullience and wide-eyed surprise, he projects men and events just far enough beyond the daily-news level to satisfy those who dislike being serious but are plagued by the need to seem informed...
...year colleges Conant proposes would combine vocational and liberal arts education. This general education program would be aimed, Conant said, at the "further development of what was begun at the high school level to make young people more effective citizens and individuals better prepared to lead a satisfying life...