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Word: enacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week President Truman signed a bill removing even this last limitation on Puerto Rican autonomy: auditor and judges will henceforth be elected by Puerto Ricans. The new bill also authorized Puerto Rico to enact its own constitution. In a referendum, Puerto Ricans will be asked whether they want to accept this proposal; if they vote yes, they will then elect a constitutional assembly. Puerto Rico will remain a U.S. territory; in fact, it could not survive without the protection of U.S. tariffs and U.S. subsidies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enlightened Rule | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Since colonial times the General Court's attempts to enact legislation which would interfere with Harvard affairs have been sporadic at best. But when the legislature has tried to mold to its own standards Harvard's brand of "piety, morality, and learning," University officers have usually protested vehemently. Mostly they succeeded in staving off restrictive action on the part of the legislators...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Poll Shows General Court's Views on Harvard | 6/22/1950 | See Source »

Another way was supplied by Nature. The dust bowl of 1934-35 and the great drought of 1936 cut farm surpluses. But a fresh wave of poverty swept families westward from their deadlands to enact the saga of the Okies and tread the Grapes of Wrath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Back in Washington, he had left a party uneasy about the effect of Senator Joe McCarthy's assault on the State Department and slow to come to his Administration's defense, a Democratic Congress that had flatly refused to enact most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hired Man | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...play tells the story of an elderly shoemaker, whose young wife's flirtations and shrewishness anger him into desertion, while she battles with sinters and adverse public opinion. He later returns disguised as a puppeteer to re-enact their marriage and separation with puppets. After the shoemaker is assured of his wife's fidelity, he removes his disguise. The status quo ante bellum is then resumed as the shoemaker's prodigious wife is provoked to throw a fit at the final curtain...

Author: By Edmond A. Levy, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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