Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-four years later the same correspondent wrote to Harper's Board Chairman Cass Canfield: "This [alter one word of my poems] you must never do. Any changes which might profitably be made in any of my poems were either made by me, before I permitted them to be published, or must be made, if made at all, someday by me. Only I who know what I mean to say, and how I want to say it, am competent to deal with such matters." The letter was signed: Edna St. Vincent Millay...
...Stevenson's] aims . . . This letter is ... in no way intended ... to influence your attitude . . ." Editor Field, who was the biggest contributor ($7,100) to Stevenson's 1948 gubernatorial campaign and who still rents Stevenson's 70-acre Libertyville, Ill. estate, noted tersely: "The letter . . . does not alter or diminish this newspaper's advocacy of Eisenhower for President...
Anything can happen, according to Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service. Hershey told the Crimson "No immediate changes forseen, but circumstances can always alter cases. Am unable to predict what next year's developments may bring...
Anything can happen, according to Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service. Hershey told the Crimson "No immediate changes forseen, but circumstances can always alter cases. Am unable to predict what next year's developments may bring...
...Houses, there are only four main solutions if the number of men from a particular field of concentration entering a House varies much from year to year. These alternatives are: 1) screen House applicants according to concentration 2) allow bigger than normal (4 to 6 men) tutorial groups, 3) alter the number of tutors or 4) "farm" tutees out to other Houses...