Word: valid
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...same race or group may, for a period of a year, seek through the referee a certificate qualifying him to vote and assuring him the right to vote and to be counted. He is required to swear that he has been denied the opportunity to register. Applying valid state laws-including "usages and customs" as they apply to whites-the referees would handle interviews out of the presence of state officials, would monitor the applications, keep stenographic records of any oral qualification tests. Along with documentary evidence, the referee would submit his list of qualified or unqualified voters...
...move into high office with skill and confidence; yet the Congolese become completely independent on June 30. There, and in other areas, the danger of bloodshed, violence, and retrogression is great as the scramble for leadership and power begins. But Africa no longer will accept such doubts as a valid reason for putting off independence. From millions of throats came the over whelming message-here we come, ready...
...question, Novelist Hawley shows that he has refined his prose technique since Executive Suite and Cash McCall; the tedium of his narrative's implacable forward progress is now unrelieved by any fresh thought or phrase, or even by a friendly old cliché. The business world is a valid and fascinating locale for fiction, and Lincoln Lord spouting ghostwritten eloquence is a recognizable type. But in telling his story without really analyzing him, Hawley does no better than his hero: he just keeps that handsome jaw moving...
...upon an ordained Methodist minister "episcopal orders" [Dec. 21], Bishop Pike has implemented the only hopeful method to achieve the next major objective in church union-mutually recognized ministerial standing among the various Protestant churches. It is based upon the assumption that the orders of any particular church, however "valid" are "incomplete," since they represent only a fraction of the total tradition and riches of Christendom...
...P.W.s worked in Krupp plants, no one knows how many were Jews. Of the Jewish slave laborers, an unknown number died in the Nazi gas ovens. In the whole federal republic, there are now only 30,000 Jews. Krupp officials estimate that there will be some 1,200 valid claims; the Claims Conference believes that there may be as many...