Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The proposal in either form was unfavorably regarded by a large majority of the electorate, which sympathized with a Paris shopkeeper who suicided "because life would be unbearable under this tax." Great indignation was expressed over the proviso that the 3 million francs' worth of short term bonds which will be presented by their owners on Dec. 8, would be exchanged for other securities maturing later instead of being paid off. Cried many, "Is France thus to default for the first time since the Revolution...
...manner laid down herein all questions of every kind which may arise between them and which it may not be possible to settle by the normal methods of diplomacy. There follow explicit regulations laying down the procedure for "conciliation commissions which are to referee disputes; and the proviso that the Council of the League will act as a court of last resort...
...rest, the treaty contains an industrial property agreement, a railroad agreement, a commercial navigation clause, a taxation agreement, an arbitration court proviso...
...miscellanea one receives at the beginning of the year relative to term bills and dining halls, has made a step of revolutionary significance in his campaign for More Mouths at Mem. By throwing open the gates of Harvard's gastronomic Elysium to the hoi polloi in petticoats--with the proviso, of course, that they find themselves suitable escorts--Mr. Meade has killed several birds with one stone; in fact, his name should be struck at once from the visiting list of the Audubon Society...
...assembled (TIME, June 9) dominant Fundamentalists were persuaded by the majority Moderates to make a concession to the minority Liberals, to wit: Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick was not to be ousted from his pulpit on lower Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, provided he subscribed to the Westminster Confession of Faith. The proviso was fair...