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Word: facto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football team each year without resorting to paying players or lowering its academic standards. But this sort of program must be carefully watched. Attempts to get more good all-round students to apply to Harvard and thus broaden the base from which the admissions committee can choose are ipso facto desirable. But misdirected efforts which unbalanced this broad base in favor of football players or any other group with specific technical skills would just as surely be undesirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saturday's Child | 10/20/1951 | See Source »

With the Yale meet becoming an annual do facto defeat, a more or less traditionally bitter rivalry has grown up between Hal Ulen's swimmers and the strong teams from Dartmouth. The Hanover spotters were timing Harvard second places and "splits" sections of the Crimson relays. With the Bruins defeated and Princeton none too strong, the Dartmouth meet on March 3 stands out as the principal threat to a Harvard unbeaten season--always, of course, excepting Yale...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Swimmers Sink Brown Team For 6th Straight Win, 43-32 | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

...relations between Western Germany and the Western Allies, and 2) to organize a military committee* that would study "the scale and manner" of the German contribution to West Europe's defense. The allies seemed ready for a bargain that would end their occupation, give the Germans de facto sovereignty in return for 150,000 German troops in the West European army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Nub of NATO | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...more directly responsive to the will of the students. But that responsiveness involves the drive with the political aspects of the council, and also interferes with the council's regular service and advisory duties. Furthermore, if the drive were under P.B.H., the council would still have a post facto control when it voted each year to authorize the drive as the only charity collection in the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity Case | 10/19/1950 | See Source »

Immediate de facto recognition of Communist China, and endorsement of the "general provisions" of the Taft-Hartley Act, were among the many other resolutions passed at the conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOP Parley Rips Senator McCarthy | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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