Word: titular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goods to sell. Germany had everything to gain by peace: removal of the threat of a Northern Front, perhaps more help from a peaceful Russia, a resultant strengthening of prestige and power not only in the North as a peace broker, but in the Balkans, where the Allies are titular protectors as they were supposed to be in Scandinavia...
Most embarrassed was Dr. Frank Porter Graham, who, as president of the University of North Carolina, is also titular head of its subsidiary, North Carolina State. A few years ago Dr. Graham got the Southern Conference to bar subsidization of athletes. But the Conference two years ago repealed the provision in the Graham Plan barring subsidies by alumni, and last week it appeared that there was nothing Dr. Graham could do to keep the Wolfpack away from his door...