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Word: provisionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Posies. Some ten feet away from Dirksen, drinking it all in, was North Dakota's Non-Partisan League Senator William Langer. Dirksen's speech, said Langer, "brought tears to my eyes. I wondered if we should not include in the resolution a provision for sending flowers to Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elbow Grease | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Everett Dirksen apparently could not decide if Langer was being facetious. He finally decided to play the North Dakotan straight, and as always, Dirksen was ready with a flowery reply. Said he: "The only thing I know in the rulebook about flowers is that there is in the general rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Elbow Grease | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

Most states have laws specifically authorizing sterilization when it is dictated by medical necessity (28 go further and allow it for eugenic reasons), and none forbids it. But Maryland has no clear-cut legislation on the subject. Circuit Judge Herman Moser went back to a general provision of the Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Furor About Sterilization | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

The by-laws of the new constitution also provide that the president, after formally consulting the executive Cabinet, can make recommendations to the President of the University or to the chairman of the PBH Committee concerning, the choice of a Graduate Secretary. This provision is apparently intended to avoid controversies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Constitution Reduces Hastie's Financial Power | 11/10/1954 | See Source »

The terms have been approved by AEC, the Attorney General, the Acting Comptroller General and TVA. But the contract cannot become effective until the Joint Atomic Energy Committee considers it for 30 days while Congress is in session, a provision of law which could delay the contract until the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Heat, Light & Power | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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