Word: transferable
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...motion their plans for private busing. Committees set up at the earlier meeting had compiled a list of vacant seats available in various Boston schools. According to a 15-year-old school department policy, any Boston child can enroll in any Boston school with vacancies, once he gets a transfer slip from his neighborhood principal. Since the urban white districts tend to have an older population than the Negro areas, they frequently have vacant places in their schools...
That night about 275 families signed up for Operation Exodus, and the next day 400 children boarded buses for four white schools which had had vacancies last spring. At two of the schools, the principals refused to let the Negro children into the classrooms since they did not have transfer slips from their Roxbury principals. At one of these, all the schoolchildren, white and black alike, were locked out until an unsuspecting janitor opened a door and the Exodus children streamed inside...
Eventually they were allowed to sit in auditoriums and hallways in both schools, and the next day were admitted into classes, with a period of grace in which to obtain transfer slips...
...world was Bill Moyers, 31, the ulcer-plagued, brilliant man Friday whom Lyndon regards almost as a son. It was Moyers who was to be informed first if anything went wrong. And it was he who would have had to decide whether the President's condition warranted the transfer of power to the Vice President. By noon, as it turned out, Moyers announced: "I believe that the President is able to make the decisions that might be necessary...
...master" appointed by the Supreme Court to make findings of fact reported in October 1961 that the transfer had injured "the reputation, prestige and standing of the Arboretum" as a distinct institution. The University brief contends that the indenture "did not impose any obligation...to create or maintain any reputation or prestige, separate or otherwise...