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Word: furnishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan officials, who inspected a model pit privy set up by ICA, quickly issued a formal request through diplomatic channels, found that ICA was eager to help out. The U.S. developed a plan to furnish three-inch-thick concrete slabs in the proper design. The Jordanians would dig the necessary pits, build optional surrounding structures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Privy Seal | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...Real Prosperity." Says President Patton: "We will coordinate our efforts with organized labor. We will work to elect Congressmen, Senators and a President who will give agriculture a better break. We will give all candidates from the presidential ones on down our views, written and verbal. We'll furnish material for their speeches. We'll even write their speeches for them if they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE FARMER'S FOUR VOICES | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...usually require at least four papers apiece. Instructors of departmental and upper-level General Education courses, however, often require no more than an hour exam. Hour exams do serve to test one's mental agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question. The reward goes to the snap-decision, not the really rational consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tissues of Truth | 4/13/1956 | See Source »

...five years of relentless campaigning, this taut, thin-lipped, back-country lawyer and ostrich farmer had won the parliamentary fight to establish white supremacy in a land of 2,600,000 whites and 10,000,000 nonwhites. Its Upper House now packed with 41 new, Strydom-created Senators to furnish the necessary votes, Parliament bowled heavily through a final joint session to change an "entrenched clause" in the 1909 South African constitution and strike the last 45,000 Colored (mixed blood) voters from the common voting roll. Strydom's-majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Party at Groote Schuur | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...house resolution demanding that the university's President Carmichael furnish the names of all students who signed a petition asking that Autherine be readmitted to the university...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Round Two in Alabama | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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