Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator voted in Russia's recent election for a candidate whose claim was that as a Stakhanovite pacesetter he had increased his milling-machine output 9,000%. Last week the successful candidate's Soviet boss and fellow workers were revealed to have helped him to rebuild and alter two milling machines, greatly overspeeded, into whose cutters he jammed work at 20 times the rapidity at which they were designed...
...every other team sport any Harvard athlete who competes against Yale and whose performance may alter the outcome receives a letter or numerals. Cross country should certainly be brought up to date. An elastic policy should be followed in making awards. In addition to the five point winners any of the Harvard second quintet to beat a member of the first Yale five deserves a letter...
...privilege of attending a meeting of a group of 1,000 students representing the 3,000 students in Catholic colleges and high schools. . . . Although your magazine is not openly against the Catholic religion, it is covertly averse to our religion which, alter all. embodies the whole moral law. From time to time there have been some articles lauding Catholicism but I feel that they are used for "bait" to gain Catholic readers to your list of subscribers. Why criticize the Church in such a cowardly way? Why not stand upon your own two feet and say: This magazine is definitely...
...about economics and apply what they learn toward easing the world's stresses & strains, instead of holding endless conferences in terms of politics & prestige. King Leopold last summer made a public appeal for action along these lines so trenchant that the London Laborite Daily Herald said it "may alter world history." and the London Conservative Morning Post declared: "The very least that countries to which the appeal was directed can do is to give the proposal their urgent and sympathetic consideration." The proposal of His Majesty (TIME...
When Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo replaced Justice Holmes in 1932, the change did nothing to alter the Court's balance and it was a minority again which defended Florida's right to impose a system of graduated taxes on chain stores. Brandeis' opinion, in this case too, was the statement of a fundamental tenet. "There is a widespread belief that . . . only by releasing from corporate control the faculties of the unknown many . . . can confidence in our future be restored. ... If the citizens of Florida share that belief, I know of nothing in the Federal Constitution which precludes...