Word: option
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prohibition got just as cold a shoulder. Arizona defeated a local option proposal; Oregon declined to ban the sale of "promotively advertised" liquor; South Dakota ruled it was all right to serve food and liquor in the same establishment; and Arkansas walloped a measure setting up statewide Prohibition, and making possession of more than a quart of liquor a crime...
...other schools graduates get the alumni magazine by class subscriptions, while at Harvard the option not to subscribe rests with the individual. The Fund Council at the University limits itself to mail appeals which alumni can throw away; elsewhere the money drives use personal solicitation to boost receipts, although this may cause resentment from alumni...
...bitter end. Searching the past from St. Helena, he found a marvelously neat reason for his defeat at Waterloo. He attributed it largely to the stupidity of the Duke of Wellington, who selected a battlefield from which it was impossible to effect a retreat. Hence, Wellington & Co. had no option but to go on holding the field even after they had lost it. "Oh, strange irony of human affairs!" murmurs the exiled logician as he looks back on the blundering British...
...since the College founding date in 1752. At first on lower Manhattan, then in midtown, and now way up at Morningside Heights, the College has reflected the city's growth in its location. Some Columbia fans like to look forward to the day when the University will have the option of taking another step around town this time to Rockefeller Center. For Columbia owns the land on which the great Rockefeller buildings stand, and on the expiration, sometime around 2030, of the 99-year-old lease that gives Rockefeller the land, Columbia will regain both the property and the buildings...
...Academic Senate's resolution strongly attacked the Regents for failing to stand by its agreement whereby faculty members who would not sign the oath had the option of being cleared by the faculty committee on privilege and tenure. The Senate claimed that in firing 40 members of the faculty after they had been cleared by the committee as agreed, the Board of Regents" . . . has above all violated the principle of tenure, an absolutely essential condition in a free university...