Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brides. The Government's new law setting a minimum age of 16, argued the Koranic priests, was clearly un-Mohammedan, since all that the Prophet specified was that a bride should be "marriageable." Meeting the Church on its own ground last week the Ministry of Justice agreed to alter the law so that when a prospective bride is less than 16 years old she may petition the Ministry of Health, claiming to be "marriageable" and offer herself for scientific examination. If Science decides in her favor, the law will be relaxed and an exception made in the precocious bride...
...Hrelle described the existence of something, invisible to microscopes, which seemed to feed on and alter the existence of various types of disease bacteria. He called this something a phage. Last week after innumerable experiments whither he was beguiled from Egyptian researches, he was prepared to restate his original, but widely questioned belief that a phage was not a chemical but a living organism. A disease germ attacked by a phage goes mad. Its heredity changes; it usually becomes harmless. Unfortunately, some phaged germs develop into something even more virulent...
...interests." President Aydelotte contends that it can deal profitably with students of various levels of ability, but only with those who are seriously in pursuit of an education and who have some conception of what it means. To introduce into the college merely professional or vocational training is to alter its character. It must substitute for the "utilitarian urge" intellectual curiosity--which is a rarer thing...
Warner expressed the view that if Harvard were to enter such a league she would have to alter her policy of playing only one game away from home each year. He emphasized the beneficial consequences for the game if such a league were restricted to colleges which consistently keep the game on a high level and refuse to subsidize athletes...
Since in many cases the collection boxes did not reach the spectators, plans are on foot to alter the methods of announcing and making the collections in order to insure that the maximum sum may be received. These arrangements will be announced on the day before the Holy Cross game...