Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven-page report issued to the Crimson Key and the College Committee on Admissions, William A. Magie '53 recommended that the Schools Committee strengthen its ties with University Hall and alter its relations with...
Once the Gestapo got advance word of a rendezvous, and lay in wait for him, but Yeo-Thomas spotted a police car in the neighborhood, and shied away. Several times a day he changed his hat, his scarf, or put a peg in his heel to alter his manner of walking. Yeo-Thomas and his associates managed to keep the Resistance from collapse...
...admit that Mao Tse-tung has indeed succeeded in eliminating inflation, and even famine, if he has already liquidated enough millions of people to achieve that. But floods! Does the dreaded Chairman Mao have the magical power to alter, mind you in three years, the course of the Hwang-ho, the Yangtze, and various other rivers which have been the sole cause of this natural disaster...
...party of Abraham Lincoln, as it often roguishly describes itself, has maintained its spotless record. The last thing it gave Negroes was liquor for their votes in the Reconstruction era. Two days ago the Republican Senators voted, 41 to 5, to table a motion to alter the filibuster rule...
...soul." A slavish objectivity subverts the purpose of history: a historian must not only be a judge, but a "hanging judge" as well. "The inflexible integrity of the moral code," said Acton, "is, to me. the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of history . . . Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity...