Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cape Province of their direct franchise. The government already has passed a law compelling the Cape's colored voters to appear before an electoral officer, magistrate or police officer to prove that they can actually write their names and addresses. Since most colored citizens prefer to steer clear of race-baiting Nationalist police officials, the effect of the new law will be to disfranchise thousands...
Izvestia had very kind words for him, the first in more than five years. And Pravda sang the praises of his "clear, realistic and emotionally powerful music. The composer felt fully the pathos of the heroic lives of the young Komsomols; he also understood the producer...
Your editorial on the Massachusetts labor referenda reflects clear and honestly objective thought, but I feel you have missed the real implications of referendum no. 6. Those of us who are against this proposition do not base our opposition to a required secret ballot strike vote upon the vague charge that a union may be deprived of its strike weapon through apathy of its membership, but on the more solid ground that such a provision has been tried before in federal legislation and has failed...
Maybe that's why more than 45,000 people are going to be in the Stadium tomorrow. Maybe it's just because last week's television was terrifically clear, so that in all of downtown Boston and South Boston's bars, men saw the Harvard team and liked...
...that Freshmen are assigned to English A on the single basis of an Anticipatory Examination. This is tailor-made solely to screen out newcomers whose writing skill already meets with the College's requirement that "By the end of his Freshman year, a student must be able to write . . . clear and concise . . . English." The Anticipatory is the hardest exam the College offers. This year more than 950 students were eligible for the exam. Thirty passed; they were inordinately lucky or exceptionably skillful. The rest, except for those who pull down an A after the first term, will have to sweat...