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Word: alterations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This new merger may alter the dates of hour exams in some courses, where a March hour was given to meet the March 25 deadline. Such actions will be managed by the individual courses and instructors without any general rule binding the March hour exam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: April Grade Delayed In Freshman Courses | 3/18/1943 | See Source »

...back; in far-sighted people it is often short. In a nearsighted eye, the image falls in front of the retina; in a farsighted eye, behind the retina. Astigmatism is usually laid to slight eye distortions. As orthodox doctors agree that a patient's efforts can not alter the shape of an eyeball, they accept distortions as final, prescribe glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exercise v. Eyeglasses | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were two Poles whom most people had never heard of. Yet the news of their executions in Russia raised an international rumpus last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Men Dead | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Both were Socialists. Ehrlich was leader of the Jewish Workers Federation in pre-war Poland; Alter was president of the Polish National Council of Trade Unions. Both were also avowed antiFascists, anti-Stalinists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Men Dead | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...Wendell Willkie also urged the Russians to release the two Poles. During his trip to Russia in September 1942, Willkie made his plea direct to Stalin, and four weeks ago cabled another plea to Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. Last week Moscow gave its answer: Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich were already dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Men Dead | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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