Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home bills in Congress, went out of his way to hint that such legislation might well be unconstitutional. Warned he: "We deal here with a constitutional right of the citizen, a right which we must assume Congress will be faithful to respect." Nonetheless, a couple of bills designed to strengthen the State Department's hand in denying passports to subversives were introduced in the House and Senate...
...without a purpose, just for the sake of 'beautiful eyes.' They invest their capital in those enterprises from which they hope to receive a good profit. If the imperialists agree to give assistance to a socialist state, they do not take such a step in order to strengthen...
...richest private university (first: Harvard), announced plans to raise $140,000,000 within the next decade, then in the next breath, told of a windfall already harvested. The gift: $15 million from the Old Dominion Foundation established by Financier Paul Mellon. Yale '29. It will be used to strengthen the residential college system, add two new colleges. Architect for preliminary site and design studies: Eero Saarinen...
...garner a small, and winning, vote for the school board. "The Shame Of It!" huge ads in the local paper screamed in black type. The School Board tried to reply with feeble statements from faculty members urging the new schools, but every statement they made served only to strengthen the split in city beliefs. Opposition cries that the Board was trying to push measures through without telling the townspeople what they were doing probably held more than a grain of truth. Until the Board tries to gain general consent from the community before it proposes a plan--and incorporates...
After pointing out that each person was both a doubter and a believer, he emphasized the importance of doubt to strengthen one's final faith. "Purpose, doubt, and courage of faith" should be important elements in the student's life, he added...