Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creating a ticklish situation for the Council, Ordinarily, twenty signatures to a petition are required before a group can be chartered. But this technicality should not, in a case when it could be utilized to deny students as effective means of expression, be invoked to prevent a charter. The rule itself is somewhat arbitrary, and in the past it has been circumvented by petitions much more loaded than the present...
...Move for Power. But the Southern politicos had other aims besides wanting to keep Harry Truman off the ballot. They wanted to insure their own re-election at home. And they hoped to gather enough power in the party to restore the two-thirds rule at their national convention-a rule which for 100 years had given them a virtual veto power over presidential candidates...
...models, premiums were still the rule. But for Fords, the premium was down to a $125-$300 range, as compared with $300-$700 six months ago. For Chevrolets and Pontiacs, it was down from $500 to $300. What bothered dealers most was that they had paid too much to get the cars. Said one overloaded Livernois dealer: "Somebody's going to take one hell of a licking on this street. It looks like there's going to be more finance people operating the used car business than there are models on the lots." Cashless Customers. What caused...
...direction in which the College had been heading for some time. In 1905 the privilege of voluntary attendance had been extended to men on the Dean's List; in 1926 the same permission had been granted to all Seniors in good standing. The new decision extended the rule to Juniors and to Sophomores in "chiefly Junior-Senior" courses, for which even the mechanical form of attendance-taking was to be dropped...
...wire-cluttered and slide-rule-dominated anterooms of Lyman Laboratory have recently arisen the slightly incongruous Parisian the slightly incongruous Parisian intonations of Philippe E. Le Corbeiller, who periodically puts aside his parallel resistances and variable condensers to give the nation his ideas on life in the twenty-five and thirtieth centuries...