Word: purports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opponents of NSA have pointed to these very issues, at least semi-political in nature, in claiming that since the college delegates are only vaguely aware of the issues involved they cannot purport to represent even the students at their own schools. The end result of the NSA Congress, the critics maintain, is that policy declarations are made which seem to represent the whole American student population, but actually represent only the personal views of the delegates present...
Last week Castro also: -¶ Heard 700 tobacco farmers vow that they were ready "to be led before firing squads" rather than comply with Castro's confiscatory land reform (TIME, June 1). ¶ Waited the results of a "public-opinion poll" that will purport to show what the U.S. thinks of Castro. The poll is the first project of Bernard Relin & Associates Inc., a U.S. public-relations agency hired by Cuba in April for $72,000 a year. ¶ Learned that ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista held $45,879,245 worth of stock in Cuban and foreign industries, about...
...refreshing innovation. Good kiss-and-tell novels are always welcome, but it is fine to see that one of the Houses has found a way to publish deserving student academic writing. The Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences includes four essays by Adams House contributors, which purport to "represent outstanding work of fledgling scholars...
Ashton, who also directs the play, has taken the overworked Troilus and Cressida theme, retained the Trojan setting, and come up with two acts that purport to depict the horrors of war. By war, Ashton means War, and he has underscored the universality of his theme by a sometimes clever juxtaposition of the ancient and the modern...
...Congress passed the Federal Communications Act, Section 605 of which provided that "no person not being authorized by the sender shall intercept any communication and divulge or publish the existence, contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning ... to any person." Penalty: $10,000 fine or two years' imprisonment, or both. The history of the section indicates that Congress did not intend it to regulate wiretapping; the wording was lifted out of the Radio Act of 1927, where the apparent intent was to prevent pirating of messages by rival communications companies. But the Supreme Court applied Section 605 to wiretapping...