Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 14 years, Congress last week proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.* It concerned presidential tenure. Under its terms, no person can be elected to the presidency for more than two terms, or more than one term if he has served more than two years of another President's unexpired term...
Thus the maximum term of any President would be ten years to the day. Gibed the Democrats: the Republicans had finally, and posthumously, been able to defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt for a third term. (The amendment would also have prevented the Republicans' Teddy Roosevelt from seeking re-election in 1912, since he had served more than three years of President McKinley's unexpired term...
Back from World War I as a frail youth with a bad lung, Lynch slept through a spare-time course at the University of Washington journalism school. The first term, he says, all he learned was to double-space his copy. After six months of it, his news-writing instructor called him aside and said: "Mr. Lynch, you are wasting your time here. Your English is horrible. Your only possibility is as a sports writer...
...Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister and head of that nation's delegation to the U. N. General Assembly, and V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the same gathering, spoke at the University last term under the Council's sponsorship...
Organized last fall by Thomas B. Dunn 1G for the purpose of singing Bach Cautatas, the choir consists of 25 University and Radcliffe students. The orchestra, which was formed earlier in the term by the Music Club, approximates the string orchestra of Bach's time...