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Word: electively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal publicists were splenetic last fortnight over the presence in Washington of the Nicaraguan generalissimo, Emiliano Chamorro. A presidential election impends in Nicaragua. General Chamorro wanted to find out how the U. S. Department of State would view his candidacy. U. S. citizens who regard U. S. intervention in Latin-American affairs as arrant presumption, were enraged to think that an honest young republic like Nicaragua could not elect whom it wished without "permission" from U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Permission' | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...University and Freshman cross country teams will meet the strong Massachusetts Agricultural College teams on the Charles River course this afternoon. The Freshman race will start at 3.30 o'clock, while the University harriers will start at 4 o'clock. The Freshmen will elect a captain following the race today. All men on the Freshman squad are eligible to vote in the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD HARRIERS TO CLASH WITH AGGIE MEN | 10/28/1927 | See Source »

...John Barnard Associates, an organization formed last February in memory of John Barnard 1700, for the purpose of fostering the love of books and furthering the work of that bibliophile, held a meeting on Monday evening in their club room at 20 South Street, to elect officers and formulate plans for the coming season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARNARD ASSOCIATES HOLD FIRST MEETING | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

...forever excluding the Habsburgs. But Hungarians regard this law as an act of duress. At the first possible opportunity they will pass another law; but whether that law will restore Otto to his royal rights, proclaim his popular cousin (Albrecht) king or allow the National Assembly to elect whomsoever it pleases, nobody can say. All that Hungarians are conscious of is that their "Kingless Kingdom on the Danube" is an anomaly that, for political reasons, must soon be decided one way or the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Magyar Kiralyi* | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Married. Miss Flora M. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-Elect William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania; to one John R. Williams, Jr.; in Ambler, Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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