Word: valid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 16 per cent of the 31,829 valid votes, Councillor Sullivan led the ballot for the second time. In 1961, running for his first term, he drew 14 per cent of a slightly larger vote...
...applying for passports the undergraduates have also opened for the State Department a dignified line of retreat from an awkward position. Other groups are planning to visit Cuba without asking government permission in the near future. Granting valid passports to the Harvard undergraduates would at least demonstrate that students with a legitimate interest in Cuba will be allowed...
...than in the other.) Physicists had assumed a law to be true in a situation where they had no right to. This was the second such faulty assumption which has been corrected in the twentieth century. Until 1926 physicists assumed that Newtonian mechanics (applicable to gloves and planets) was valid on the atomic level. In 1926 quantum mechanics appeared as a more valid description of mechanics upon the atomic level. In both cases the significance is hardly abstruse. Scientists who extend their laws to situations other then where they were originally derived should do so with great care. Where possible...
When an Iberia Air Lines jet dropped them all at New York's Idlewild Airport last week, the intransigent Fidelistas were ready to stage a noisy lie-down protest rather than surrender their passports. Instead, the first five to step through immigration had their passports stamped "Not Valid-Tentatively Withdrawn." The rest got letters declaring their passports tentatively withdrawn-and ten of them got subpoenas to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...Tracy to Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid clich...