Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teams argued the topic: "Resolved, That the federal government adopt a permanent program of wage and price control." The New Jerrey delegation took the negative...
...from the old part of Adams House. The Center used to be a Catholic Club of Harvard and Radcliffe students. Since the spring of 1949, it has become the hub of a nation-wide group of self-termed "militant Catholics" who defy the higher Catholic authorities and adopt a line that has been commended by the American Fascist Union...
...University could adopt a plan similar to Yale's, whereby every student cleans his own room according to standards set by a group of inspectors. This plan has proved somewhat impracticable at Yale, where conditions are described as "generally messy...
Britain's Socialist government stoutly urged all twelve NATO nations to adopt a new British .280-cal. rifle, even though the U.S. argued that its own new .30-cal. T25 has more range and target impact (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill hinted that the Tory government would shelve the .280 rifle...
...redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion. If we adopt violent means as has been done in China and Russia the whole world will face calamity...