Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...premise that the undergraduate vote on the new constitution was actually held according to the rules of the present constitution, the Council interpreted the 85 to 90 percent yeas among those voting as grounds for polling its own membership and obtaining the two-thirds majority now required for any amendment...
...balm for his own loneliness; in Chicago. Harris became the first national, first international, president of Rotary (so named because early meetings were held in rotation at each member's office), lived to see his club expand to more than 70 countries, with a 293,000 membership...
Further articles of the new constitution provide for changes in amendment procedure, membership, qualifications and duties of members. Another clause gives the Council power to cooperate with other organizations both within and outside the College. This means that Harvard could take part in joint ventures with student organizations, such as December's student conference at Chicago, without going to the College for election or representatives...
...Eurico Caspar Dutra); the Labor Party (bossed by ex-President Getulio Vargas); the Communist Party; and the National Democratic Union (which is against the Government, the Communists and Vargas). The most sensational aspect of the election was the gains made by Brazil's Communists, who, with an official membership of 120,000, are Latin America's biggest Communist Party...
...devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. ... In desperate need for God, he will induce modern man in his loneliness and frustration to hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give man enlargement of pur pose, without any need of personal amend ment and without admission of personal guilt...