Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...USSR was forced to alter its 1947-'49 policy of "over hostility" when the West reacted by increasing its military strength, he asserted in a speech at Harkness Commons...
Judge Frank W. Tomasello of Boston opposed the Commission's attempt to alter the judicial system. "The whole congestion in Superior Court," he said, "is due to snobbish lawyers who don't want to be seen in district court...
...that they are modern, "the wave of the future." In reality, they are as age-old as tyranny. According to the Soviet Union, "an ineluctable law governs history" in their favor; yet it requires nothing less than "a constant reign of terror to crush the plots that might alter its unalterable course." The secondary myths are that the totalitarians are young, strong, healthy and decisive, while the democracies are decrepit, dilatory. corrupt and weak. In one sense, the totalitarians are young. The average life expectancy in the U.S.S.R. appears _to be about 30 years, the same...
...would be possible for the College to hold registration on a Friday rather than a Wednesday to give a three day rest for those with Monday exams, and a six day beak for those whose last exam was on the previous Friday. In addition, the administration could alter the present rotation system of exam scheduling so that fewer than 2,800 students would stare at blue books on blue Mondays. By placing the exams of courses with small enrollments on Monday, more students would have longer vacations. This would not only benefit students, but would also aid instructors...
...Unikted States should alter its public school system so that exceptionally talented students can receive more thorough college preparation, James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus said last night...