Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Additional courses, though, will not alter the quality of the subjects already taught. Public high school courses are geared to the average student. At many schools, the gifted learner is placed in accelerated classes. Horace Mann has this accelerated program in algebra and plane geometry--an arrangement which might profitably be extended to other subjects...
...Syria into his new United Arab Republic and fire the hearts of Lebanese Moslems to join in the same sort of positive neutrality. Moslem opposition leaders were alarmed at the way President Chamoun, who won a three-quarters majority in last year's parliamentary elections, now proposed to alter the constitution so that he might run for a second term when his six-year term expires next September...
...summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...
...Congress): "There have been periods in our history when the 'kill the umpire' attitude made considerable headway, and many pop bottles have been thrown at our courts in the past. Fortunately, except in minor ways, the legislature has never taken these attacks seriously enough to alter the judicial system or retaliate against the judiciary...
...addition to granting the University permission to build the House, the permit names certain restrictions, not yet revealed, with which the construction of the building must comply. The restrictions should not, however, alter the present concept of the structure...