Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system has two disadvantages, neither of which the University considers compelling at this time. Whereas a large department, which makes a permanent appointment every two or three years, can bring in outstanding scholars from all over the country whenever they turn up, the smaller department, with appointments only every five to ten years, has nothing to offer such men if they happen to be looking for permanent positions in a year when no appointments are scheduled...
Conrad Hilton thinks such a future is fine and he plans to start making it come true by building high-priced, small hotels in the smaller cities which were passed over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he does not think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where...
Despite the fact that most Annex students polled complained of difficulties in securing course books in the Radcliffe Library, Metcalf said he thought the 'Cliffe facilities were quite adequate. "Radcliffe authorities have just as much money as Lamont with which to guy books, and they have a smaller student body to serve...
...Smaller universities or colleges often have "Academic Senates" which serve the purpose that the University was established for in Harvard's early days as a university...
...Entire Family. Peripatetic Hearn was completely bowled over by Yokohama -"A world where everything is upon a smaller and daintier scale . . . where all movement is slow and soft, and voices are hushed." His shortness no longer embarrassed him: Japan was a "realization . . . of the old [folklore] dream of a World of Elves." He loved Japanese ideographs, Japanese "delicacy," the "atmospheric limpidity" of the Japanese climate...