Word: tenths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Doubled Income. Newfoundland's crisis comes on the tenth anniversary of its conversion from a lowly dependency of the British Commonwealth Relations Office to a full-fledged Canadian province. To thousands of transatlantic air travelers who have seen the fueling base at Gander airport, the province appears to be little more than a barren rock jutting out into the North Atlantic sea and air lanes. It is a land of clammy summer fogs and lashing North Atlantic storms; its climate and soil are so forbidding that the islanders must import a full 90% of their food. St. John...
...keep pace with the times, the Dining Hall Department is likewise "exploring the possibility of redesigning other House dining areas." Plans have been tentatively drawn for Eliot House, and other studies will commence soon. The Central Kitchen itself will not expand in the near future, since the ninth and tenth Houses will have independent kitchens, but it may be partially reconstructed...
...county-sized Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (pop. 315,000; area, 1,000 sq. mi.) is the smallest member of NATO, of the European Common Market and of the United Nations. But in some matters, little Luxembourg looms big. It is the tenth largest steel-producing country in the world; its citizens are the most prosperous in Europe, and so fond of its own frothy beer and heavy dumplings that the Germans market corsets in Luxembourg that are outsized even by German standards. And, according to a U.N. report, Luxembourg's drivers have the highest automobile accident rate...
...tenth reunion of his college class is where a man discovers with quick amusement that his classmates are married, harried and potty as aldermen. It is also where a man realizes, in dismay, that he is too. Perhaps with the idea of softening the shock, Princeton's class of '49 mailed questionnaires to its 760 members. From 510 anonymous replies, tabulators last week could sketch the sort of old Princetonian who will make the nostalgic trip to Nassau Hall this June: he is plump, prosperous, has most of his hair, is worried about the state of the world...
This term the college received $2,400 under the act, one-tenth of the amount originally requested. Additional grants are expected in the Fall. "Small as it was, the Federal aid was very helpful," the Dean commented. Now many students needing assistance and especially those on scholarships find they are better off borrowing and utilizing the extra time at study...