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Word: provisionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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If a Veterans Administration hospital has an empty bed it must admit an ailing ex-serviceman even if his illness has nothing to do with his military duty. He simply swears that he has no means to pay for private care, and a 1935 law has been interpreted as forbidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterans' Oaths | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Keeping faith with its stockholders, the company announced that it would appeal to the Guatemalan supreme court, challenging a provision of the agrarian law which bars court appeals from land-reform decisions. The last four supreme-court justices who ruled in favor of a landholder were thrown out and replaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Practically Confiscation | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

Every summer, thousands of college students work famously until they have earned $599, and then suddenly lay down their tools and loaf. They stop short because of an outmoded provision in the tax laws: if they earn over $600 in a year, they cannot be claimed as "dependents" on their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inflate the Deduction | 3/10/1953 | See Source »

If Congress change the limit so that "Dependents" could earn $1000 a year, it would both allow college students to work through the entire summer, and would case the nation's labor shortage. According to Treasury help to case the nation's labor shortage. According to Treasury help to case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inflate the Deduction | 3/10/1953 | See Source »

¶ Would he go out of this country for a meeting with Joe Stalin? He would meet anybody if he thought there was the slightest chance of doing any good. He would go to any suitable spot, say halfway between, and talk with anybody and with the full knowledge of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thank You, Mr. President | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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