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Word: alterable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After its convincing defeat of Dartmouth last Saturday, the varsity hockey team will, in effect, turn its eyes to the scoreboards until the Yale game on March 2. The game with Williams at Williamstown this afternoon should not alter this waiting game that Crimson coach Cooney Welland's team must play...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Sextet Favored to Defeat Williams | 2/20/1957 | See Source »

Before Psychiatrist Thigpen's eyes, Eve White had changed into a different personality. She gave herself the name Eve Black. Sometimes the new personality appeared spontaneously. At other times the psychiatrists hypnotized Eve White, called upon Eve Black to appear, and White turned into Black. The alter ego, it developed, was fun-loving and nightclub-haunting, a smoker, drinker, dancer, leader-on of men, and daring dresser-all the things that Eve White could never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: All About Eve | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...always seems just on the verge of becoming memorable as well as exciting--but never quite gets there. In changing the names of the people involved--Bryan becomes Brady and Darrow, Drummond--Messers. Lawrence and Lee would seem to be saying that they have reserved the right to alter the story. Nobody would begrudge them this right, except for the fact that the changes they made nearly always constitute clever dramatic effects. Thus, for instance, Bryan collapses spectacularly after the end of the trial. It's a neat trick, since it automatically restores him to the audience's sympathies...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Inherit the Wind | 12/6/1956 | See Source »

...indeed the rather delicate problem of University press relations and the City's unique ability to alter and enforce certain building codes and regulations which govern the University's policy, then we ask that this may be made known so that we may all face this common problem with a complete understanding of all the implications...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Council Seeks Reasons For Auto 'Crackdown' | 10/23/1956 | See Source »

...assistant Government professor and an ROTC spokesman disagreed last night on the feasibility of John Kenneth Galbraith's suggestion to alter the present structure of the Armed Forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huntington Differs With ROTC on Volunteer Force | 10/16/1956 | See Source »

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