Word: alter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reader of the inevitable tension between feeling and fact in the writing of history and social criticism. In the academic world this is considered unflinchingly honest procedure. In politics it passes for unpardonable naivete. And since in running for the Senate Hughes has been neither willing nor able to alter his candid style, he seems type cast for the part of Don Quixote...
...gesture enlightened enough to ask for more enlightenment, the Ford Foundation has granted $125,000 for a ten-year study that may measurably alter admissions policy of the nation's colleges. Under the grant Williams College will examine students admitted "with less-than-outstanding grades and test scores but with promising qualities that defy scientific measurement" such as "flair, forte, strength of character...
Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting said last night that the proposed move would "clarify"--but not alter--the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe. The Radcliffe trustees have already approved the move...
...Changing Name Sir: The writer who penned "Melting the Pot"[March 23] deserves plaudits for his definitive coverage of the commercial alter...
...Monday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that will alter the face of American political life. Breaking with its own precedent, the Court ruled 6 to 2 that Federal courts must consider legal complaints of city voters who are under-represented in the legislatures of most of the fifty states. Although the decision directly concerns a suit on the part of metropolitan voters in Tennessee, its implications extend to every state. Federal courts now have the duty to rule on the constitutionality of state legislative apportionments, and the apportionments themselves are subject to the clause of the 14th Amendment...