Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Support without reservation of the proposed new zoning ordinance (The University has already expressed its general approval of the ordinance, but says certain aspects of it might unduly hamper its growth...
...Councilor Edward J. Sullivan gave his support to Vellucci's order, stating that he felt "a private developer can come up with a much better offer." Charging Harvard with attempting a "land grab," he said, "I know they are fast trying to put me out of business in my district," the area in the neighborhood of Dunster House and the new Leverett towers...
...impression is, as you imply, that the Admissions Committee does not support the general thesis that students should be picked on the basis of their academic achievement alone. I recall hearing that there were 1200 students with aptitude scores in excess of 700 applying last year (700 means the top 1 per cent), and yet only 800 of these students were selected for admission to Harvard. Certainly this indicates a willingness to weight such evidence as personality, character, extra-curricular activities, and the like...
...some support. Says a pretty young seamstress: "What Beth wants is no more unwed mothers running around here, shoving pickneys off on old grandmothers to raise." But one island matron sniffed that "Beth Jacobs is just teaching single girls how to use contraceptives." Bishop John J. McEleney warned the Roman Catholic 6% of the population against the clinic. Occasional signs chalked on walls say, "Birth control is a plan to kill Negroes...
...paragraph in last summer's $887 million National Defense Education Act, which provides that to qualify for a loan or fellowship, a student must 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., and 2) affirm that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence or by any illegal or unconstitutional methods...