Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ziggurat served remarkably well its purpose of being a man-made hill on a marshy, level plain, from which the astronomer-priest made his observations. Today's architectural "wedding-cake" in its own stead serves with keen acuteness the need of providing today's businessman with the area necessary for conducting his affairs ... At the end of the day he is vomited out; scurries into the holes provided in the sidewalk, and is not seen until the next morning...
Almost as President Truman's decision was announced, the U.S. learned it had been playing the game of survival with the enemy looking over its shoulder at all its top-secret cards. The arrest in London of Communist-Scientist Klaus Fuchs, a spy who had worked at top level atomic jobs in the U.S. (see INTERNATIONAL), led a jittery Washington to wonder whether even the deepest of military or state secrets were safe from the U.S.S.R.'s agents. It also wrote a chilling epilogue to such recent demonstrations of the meaning of treason as the trial...
Wholesale deconversion has been postponed for at least one term, Dean Watson announced last night. With a few minor exceptions, all Houses will operate on the same numerical level they are now on through next fall...
...term registration, including withdrawals, will level off at about 900, she predicted. This total is slightly smaller than fall registration figures when 635 upperclassmen and 279 freshmen lined up to enroll...
...leave Cambridge makes painfully clear the confusion of Harvard's athletic program. The fact that a man might even consider leaving a school with the prestige and rank of Harvard to coach at Connecticut ought to drive home the unpleasant fact that we have no athletic policy as any level in Cambridge. There is no need for Harvard to go professional in its athletics; but to disregard completely the forces which are acting on intercollegiate athletics is to be guilty of self-inflicted blindness...