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Word: affirmations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affirm that a state can use its police powers to prevent "sedition" against the Federal Government, thus erasing the 1956 opinion (TIME, April 16. 1956). written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. that freed Pennsylvania's top Communist Steve Nelson from prosecution under a state antisedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Plugs for the Loopholes | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...last week were skirmishing with their old hoodoo, the loyalty oath. Source of the trouble: a paragraph in last summer's $887 million National Defense Education Act, which provides that to qualify for a loan or fellowship, a student must 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., and 2) affirm that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Doffed Line | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Army a valuable chance to experiment trying out new concepts, discarding old ones. It should not pass it up. Successful innovations developed now might prove invaluable in an emergency. If men with higher aptitudes, for instance, can be trained in a shorter period of time--and everything seems to affirm this...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: The Six-Month Program: A Critical Appraisal | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...policy of basing admissions on a broader range of talent than mere academic proficiency. It could try to check the growth in quantity of course work. It could cultivate in its undergraduates the realization that their value to society has little to do with their Group standing. It could affirm the value of organized non-academic activity and encourage participation in extra-curricular work beyond the level of encouragement it has so far maintained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for the College | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

...opponents of the withdrawal--Richard Barringer '59, Daniel M. Fox '59, Chitranjan Kapur '60, Lawrence B. Ekpebu '60, and Lionel B. Spiro '60--affirm that defects of the program can be corrected within the framework of the organization itself. "For us, this will mean sending a full delegation to the national conferences and increasing our correspondence with NSA," they asserted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority Report Cites Value of NSA Plans, Criticizes Withdrawal | 10/22/1958 | See Source »

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