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Word: accords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very Simple." Since 1946, the French National Assembly has been elected by proportional representation, a system which tends to encourage minority parties, especially those whose strength is widely spread throughout the nation. P.R. is supposed to be in accord with a deep-seated characteristic of the French people. The argument runs that the French are too "logical" to form large, loose political groupings, American style. At least as good an argument can be made that the French are no more logical in politics than any other people, and that the small French parties are the result of rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Importance of Elections | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Admiral Rotchford, superintendent of Eliot House, said that he was "happily in accord with what the University is doing." He added that he had been here for 16 years and never knew the administration to make a mistake. Thomas McCarthy of Dunster also felt that students "should be able to do as well as the maids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porter Proposal Divides Opinions Of Head Janitors | 2/28/1951 | See Source »

...must be some mistake. Said the president of Rotary International, Arthur Lagueux, a Quebec investment broker and a Roman Catholic: "Rotary is not a secret organization. It does not seek to supplant or interfere with any religious or political organization. It assumes that its program of service is in accord with all religions, and it does not concern itself with a Rotarian's politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Worldly Rotary | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Said the board's statement: "This letter, if it is from Dr. Phelps, reveals that he has taken a position that is not in accord with the policies laid down by the Board of Managers of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society . . ." The statement added that Missionary Phelps (Yale '17), a nephew of Yale's late, beloved English Professor William Lyon (Billy) Phelps, was "a grand person," but at times "unpredictable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unpredictable | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...prices; the inference was that the State Department no longer considered the controversial Gillette report on coffee-market manipulations (TIME, June 19) a hot issue. Instead, he bore down on world issues. Said he: "It may perhaps be charged that the" remarks I ... make are not wholly in accord with the traditional concepts of diplomatic conduct . . . The peoples of Latin America [must] realize and appreciate the magnitude of our effort and sacrifice in treasure and blood in the far-flung fields of the East-West conflict . . . While we are making these sacrifices to defend our national integrity, we are [contributing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belt-Tightening | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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