Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sapers called his position as chairman "peculiar," because he took office less out of obligation to the Council than "in a sense of duty to the under-privileged of the world." The Council should try to alter the Committee's policy only when the chairman "seriously falters from the latter obligation...
...applying the 70 percent rule, Watson cautioned, Housemasters may not alter the current cross-section distribution in the Houses. "We feel that it would be unfair to let some houses take over and above their normal number of first choices and thus throw the system further out of focus," Watson said...
...Maybe the scientists are wrong. That does not alter the fact of their findings or the fact of the Administration's response to those findings. It seems to us that these undisputed facts are pretty big news in any league, deserving better than dismissal with an easy sneer, and especially from a publication which has always shown TIME'S intelligent interest in defense problems...
...administration can keep its campaign promise without destroying hope for eventual federal control. By denying an ironclad deed to covetous California, Texas, and Louisiana, the government will be able to alter its agreement at any time. There will always be the opportunity to reclaim the revenue if citizens decide that coastal oil should be improving American education rather than lubricating Southern political machines...
Joachim's Third Realm corrupted the Christian idea by promising perfection on earth; it also transgressed the limits Plato had set upon the state and upon men's tendency to alter the higher truths of philosophy and religion to fit political or material ends. Militarily, Mongol absolutism entered the West through Hungary; philosophically, political absolutism re-entered the West through Joachim. Joachim's invasion was more devastating because the anti-Christian attempt to embrace salvation on earth went beyond Genghis and other primitive societies, and was to produce despotisms and perversions of truth worse than primitive society...