Word: explicitness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress's power to investigate was not explicit in the Constitution. But it has become implicit: the Supreme Court has held that the right to legislate carries with it the right to inquire into all business pertinent to the nation's welfare. Because such inquiries are not a judicial process, Congress also has the right to make its own rules...
...Yale to honor the nation's first and one of its best scientific research centers (see SCIENCE). They could reasonably have expected to hear self-congratulatory speeches on the centennial of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School. Instead, from the school's director himself, they heard the explicit suggestion that science doesn't know all the answers, and never will...
Another alternative which might permit Albums to operate as something more than name and address books should be thoroughly investigated. The University, acting with the permanent class committees, might set up a revolving fund which is drawn on by a class to support its Album with the explicit understanding that the money be repaid out of class funds at a later date...
Harry Truman clearly felt no such respect, even though the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to raise money and pay the nation's debts. The President's constitutional right to veto any bill was just as explicit. But his moral right to defy the will of the people's representatives twice in 32 days was a question that would arouse debate, and make Republican campaign fodder...
That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...