Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just enough to defeat the 90-day extension (by a hairline vote of 178 to 163). Republicans and Southerners had not yet given up. Heading into the final vote, Indiana's Republican Charlie Halleek crowed confidently: "I think the Democratic leaders are a little panicky. All those votes were very, very close...
...Conservative Party. He has estimated that completion of his program will take 25 years. Whether or not he and his party will have a chance to finish the job is still up to the people who first sent him to London. They are his judges, and they have not yet relaxed their vigilance...
...shouted, "we can no longer take part in this farcical debate." As one man, the 48 Radicals tore up their copies of the new constitution, flung the pieces in the Peronistas' faces and marched out. "We shall return," declaimed Lebensohn over his shoulder. "We shall yet return to write another constitution...
Unfortunately, says Einstein, the coercion has not lessened since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...
Dwight D. Eisenhower had scarcely begun to learn his new job as Columbia University's president before he was whisked off to Washington to become presiding officer of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Yet the nation's fourth biggest university* (enrollment 28,800) seemed to just keep rolling along. Who were Ike's deputy commanders while he was away? Last week Columbia identified them...