Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reservoirs of undeveloped skills that continually reside in the College community, the bounds of student enthusiasm are virtually limitless. WHRB goes on a 700-hour broadcasting orgy, the HDC produces some of the most difficult plays obtainable, and the Glee Club sings concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Tighter organization and planning, constant self-criticism, and allocation of the requisite time and energy can produce virtually any desired...
There is no project to "impose tighter control" on the Defense Studies Program and its Seminar...
...joined the Times's Washington staff in 1945. Winner of more than a dozen awards in White House News Photographers' Association contests, shiny-domed Cameraman Tames shares the President's respect for straight, unretouched pictures that tell a story. The deepening groove between the eyes, the tighter lines of the mouth in each succeeding picture picked by Ike reflect the aging, deeply earnest man whom Eisenhower sees in his own mirror...
...small business and local government is "debatable," Martin argued. Furthermore, frustrated borrowers "would suffer infinitely more from further inflationary bites" than they do from temporary postponement of borrowing. In fact, said Martin, if he had it all to do over again he would have laced up bank credit even tighter, beginning back in late 1954, to hold inflation down. But, he added with just a hint of relenting: "The balance between savings and investment can change completely in three to four months' time...
...would have some tie with the local city government. However, in the case of Cambridge, this provision has served only to place the school system under a political influence from which it was originally intended to be free. As Shaplin plans to recommend, state control over education should provide tighter and more complete minimum requirements for the qualifications of teachers and curricula, as well as outlining stricter methods for administration of the school systems. Cambridge's example should illustrate that even the field of education is not free from political maneuvering...