Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem to the layman a clear mandate, a two-to-one majority demanding a new food policy. Perhaps there are reasons, as yet undisclosed, for maintaining the present system. But since the question was considered fit subject for a poll, one is tempted to ask just what majority would warrant action. One group alone, those who now take ten meals a week, opposed the change. They constitute 7.2% of the College. It seems hardly just that so small a group should stand in the way of a change which would so manifestly benefit vast majority of the undergraduate body. Carroll...
...congenial group which faced the white-capped waters on the shores of the Great Tepee. Roger Willcox '41, Commodore of the Yacht Club, had decided that the engagement was informal enough to warrant a crew from Radcliffe, which "was practically part of Harvard anyway." Willcox's brother was in the Dartmouth boat, and Charlie Miller '41, the CRIMSON's exhepcat, had ensconced himself in the hold of the Tech dinghy. Only Brown seemed to have come directly for racing. At the end of three races, approximately when the sun went down, M. I. T. had ten points to its credit...
...Manhattan he fell into the hands of U. S. authorities, was detained on Ellis Island as an alien illegally sojourning in the U. S., until friends came through with $5,000 bail. Red-faced was the Department of Justice's radio division when it learned that the warrant for Valtin's arrest had been issued several days before it decided he ought to broadcast for democracy...
...other matters, the committee has been content with discussion, but in spite of the wide differences of opinion which appear in most question, all have agreed that the food situation is urgent enough to warrant the letter to the President...
Last May FCC decided that Frequency Modulation was sufficiently advanced to warrant its undertaking commercial operation. Freed from the confines of experiment, staticless FM began to loom formidably on radio's horizon. But while some operators were struggling to transform their experimental stations into high-powered outfits for commercial use, the national-defense program suddenly slowed down delivery of equipment. Last week FCC did right by FM once again, announced that it would permit experimental FM units to operate commercially (provided they had received commercial construction permits) until big-league transmitters are delivered...