Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge will probably meet with the lawyers within the next few days to confirm or alter the arrangements made yesterday...
...things have a strange way of growing permanent," stated John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, "and one looks with some feat on this change. I do feel that the question of Harvard's remote future has got to be faced. In other words, this change would not alter the continued need for another House...
...going to the hotels to watch the high-priced floor show, eat the $2 steak dinner, enjoy the elegant $8-a-day hotel room, and maybe drop a few token coins in the slot machines (5% profit for the house). Last June most of the hotels were forced to alter a longstanding policy, and charge a $2 minimum for the midnight supper shows that guests could once see by sitting at a table and ordering a soft drink. Said Riviera Board Chairman Morrie Mason: "We don't think that we, or any other hotel, should give away...
...Whether by divine power or electrical cosmos, man operates in a highly limited field. He can neither fashion the future nor alter the past. His only power lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance...
...prospect of that kind of trouble did not cause the U.S. to alter its course of rapid social change. Far from being in these days of increasing prosperity a relaxed luxury liner drifting through seas of self-satisfaction, the U.S. is, more than ever, on a cruise of experiment, an amazing and perilous voyage of discovery toward the unknown potentialities of brotherhood that may lie beyond mere material prosperity...