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Word: provisionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor J. Lindsley Almond, who had pledged himself to fight to the end within the limits of the law, conceded last week that the battle was lost. The laws which had empowered him to shut down any school ordered to integrate by district courts were struck down by the Virginia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Integration in Virginia | 2/3/1959 | See Source »

The Faculty last year omitted any such proposals from its vote on the CEP plan, a move of which Leighton said, "one cannot complain . . . but one may regret it. The CEP report, while offering loop-holes for interested Juniors who have failed their Honors qualifying tests, does not offer a...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Leighton Asks Progress On Non-Honors Tutorial | 1/28/1959 | See Source »

2) Drop from the old Rule XXII a provision that, in effect, barred cloture on a motion to change the Senate rules.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Maintaining Reason | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

It may be no accident that all this coincided with fairly strong criticism of Khrushchev's educational reform plan by Nesmeyanov and other academicians, who do not like its provision for putting all students to work. At a recent Moscow meeting, Nesmeyanov reportedly toed the line: the time has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King of the Dunghill | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

Griswold's letter presented four chief reasons for discarding the controversial provision. First, he recalled instances when educational processes have "been distorted and disrupted by forces operating under the shelter of test oaths."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League Protests Anti-Subversive Oath | 1/23/1959 | See Source »

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