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Word: exer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the court gave its answer: "We find no instance in which the com mission [violated] the governing statute" -which gives it "broad discretion" to approve whatever projects it judges best suited to the nation's needs. Before exer cising this discretion, said the court, the FPC gave "mature consideration" to both plans and concluded-on the basis of the evidence-that each was "equally comprehensive." Weighing in favor of the private project was the fact that Congress has consistently refused to authorize a federal dam. Hence, the FPC "chose between a $400 million plan, which nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Hell's Canyon & the Law | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...novel is set in the bottomland of the Ohio in the latter half of the nineteenth century--specifically the years 1861-1865. However, although the Civil War figures prominently in the story, A Dream of Kings cannot rightfully be labeled an historical novel, and tossed thus cursorily on the exer-growing heap of Civil War fictions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Half-way World of Violence and Beauty | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

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