Word: representation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control the selection of a slate from which 60 per cent of the succeeding Council is chosen. And he should know that this 60 per cent will arbitrarily select the remaining members of the new Council, in the manner of many exclusive organizations that make no pretense of representation and do not label themselves a "Student Council...
But four days later Nikolai Feonov insisted that the World Federation of Trade Unions, a non-governmental body claiming to represent 66 million workers in 56 nations, should be permitted to take part in all Ecosoc activities with all privileges of a member state, except that it would have no...
¶ "For white females . . . the average length of life [is] 68.95 years, almost exactly one year short of the biblical three score and ten which . . . was not intended to represent an average, but rather the extreme of life."
One baffled Britisher buttonholed a U.S. reporter, begged him to "show me which of these things represent the American form of art. They all look French to me." When the correspondent pointed out regional Americana by Thomas Benton and John Steuart Curry, the Englishman said "Hmmm, thank you," and slowly...