Word: alter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Mr. Barnes had testified, Chairman Legge publicly corrected him: "The Board did not alter its policies as a result of the hearing given the grain trade nor has the board agreed to submit its policies to the grain trade before action. . . . I don't think Mr. Barnes intended to convey this impression...
...five weeks of the year to run, the 1929 score of Negroes lynched stood last week at nine (Florida, three; Mississippi, two; Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, one each), when out of Texas came grisly news of another lynching. But this was a special lynching and did not alter Texas' position on the Black List. Instead of a Negro, the Texans lynched a white...
Savage enemies have tarred Anido with a vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...
Thus did the men whose names are known strive mightily to alter a national psychology. Theirs in great part was the credit last week when on Thursday Oct. 31 U. S. Steel which the Tuesday before had closed at 174, closed at 193½, and Radio which had plunged to 38½ climbed...
Harvard's revamped backfield will get its first test against the Green. This will probably be the only time this quartet will play as a starting backfield as Harper's return next week should again alter the backfield situation...