Word: momentous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...America, for if we have any interests there, we cannot allow the seizure of land under the six conditions, for these interests are as a to be menaced under these conditions as any other. The position assumed by the affirmative is also too broad because it assumes that the moment the debt falls due there is a complete break-down of arbitration. We should demand that the creditor nation make at least some effort to carry out the award before it throws it over. And, if we are to permit the seizure of land under the six conditions named...
...moment of final default, the award of the Hague tribunal must stand as a judgment. It means immediate satisfaction at that time, and anything less would be an overthrow of the judgment. A nation should have the same right of recoupment out of a debtor's property that a judgment creditor has at common law. In international law seizure of land is recognized as a legal means. In the case tonight the creditor has chosen this immediate means of obtaining satisfaction under the award, and, between the two countries involved, this will be a just proceeding...
...regard to the standard of undergraduates' work as compared to the work demanded by the professional schools. The quantity and quality of the A.B. requirements are shown to be needlessly low and hence productive of indifference and idleness among the candidates for this degree that could not for a moment be tolerated in the more advanced departments of the University. Although the facts stated are undeniably true, it is plain that a literal adoption of the suggestions made by the article would tend to destroy that freedom of choice which had been the aim of the College for the last...
...corporation, and upon its legal dissolution, all the assets of the corporation to vest, subject to its liabilities, in the general body of participating members, as a voluntary association of the same nature and with the same constitution and by-laws as those of the present Society at the moment before incorporation...
...rush Mills crossed the line. In the second half, the first team plowed its way from its own territory to the second eleven's 5-yard line, but there lost the ball on a fumble. It was obtained again, however, on downs at the 15-yard line, and a moment later Graydon made the last touchdown on a run from the 10-yard line...