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Word: purports (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flop, and decisions are still made by "a calculus of individual economic costs." Bell's concluding imperative is strong: "If the city's economy makes sense today only in regional terms, so must policy." But backed by reason alone it has the hollow ring of all academic imperatives which purport to be solutions...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: The Harvard Review | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...really so necessary, warning liberals not to conceive whatever legislation does get through as a salvation. Since the Civil War liberals have learned that opponents of civil rights would not respect even so high an authority as an amendment to the Constitution. That there exist inadequate laws which purport to effect Constitutional strictures is no argument against adequate...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The End of Debate | 2/12/1963 | See Source »

...itself constitute a threat to our society?" Unsurprisingly, NBC's Specials for Women have been showered with awards from organizations like Fame magazine and Radio-TV Mirror. The Specials for Women are reasonably good shows, marked on TV's achievement curve, but they are not what they purport to be: serious studies of women at the crossroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tiddely-Pom | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...breast and back, a blind news dealer beaten to death by men he could not see. These bloodlettings take place not in the primitive backcountry of the Congo but in highly developed cities; the killing is not done by savages but by men who, in one way or another, purport to be part of French civilization. The murder is so efficient and predictable that gravediggers in Oran prepare burial sites before the day's consignment of corpses arrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: Offense Against God | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...Harvard Student Council has no place, no function, no purpose in the Harvard Community. It cannot purport to represent student opinion either to the faculty or to the nation. It is completely out of touch with both faculty or to the nation. It is completely out of touch with both faculty and student body. There are no reasons to justify the existence of an organization which only has a dining hall and a parietal hours report to show for its "stupendous" labor for the last seven months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STILL MORE ON THE COUNCIL | 4/22/1961 | See Source »

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