Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pour Chinese tea with deft, graceful hands; money-raising, of which he is past master, successful with everybody but Brown Graduate John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given Brown but one small building and but half of that. Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place, today stands on the campus. In other quarters, Parson Faunce has been more successful. Under his aegis, Brown buildings have increased an hundredfold, Brown endowments a thousandfold...
...Manxmen had some purposes other than curiosity for journeying so far from home. Manxman Crookall and his lieutenant, Manxman Richard Cain, wished to induce the government of the U. S. to make a special proviso in its immigration quota for incoming Manxmen. Said A. B. Crookall: "Our young men are anxious to come to this country. We want a quota like the Irish Free State and Scotland...
...Some immediate relief would come from an amendment to the Volstead Law giving a scientific definition of the alcoholic content of an intoxicating beverage. . . . Each State would then be allowed to fix its own standard of alcoholic content, subject always to the proviso that that standard could not exceed the maximum fixed by the Congress...
While Cardinal Gasparri held out for and secured to the Papacy the technical right of appointment, Dr. Benes was able to cover this trump with the proviso that Papal appointments in Czechoslovakia shall be made only with the consent of the State...
Yesterday's treaty has further, the proviso that similar treaties must be concluded during the year with Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and lesser powers. For the United States is trying to superimpose on the League and Locarno covenants which it has found unacceptable, its own plan for universal peace. In this connection Senator Borah has written, "It is safe to prophesy that the United States will never become identified or cooperate with a system for peace based upon, 'pledges to wage war'." Unwilling, in other words, to assist in the forceful prevention of wars under the plans now in effect...