Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate was unimpressed. After voting down six amendments to the Moratorium resolution, it overwhelmingly (69-to-12) approved the measure exactly as the House had passed it. including the proviso that Congress was against further reduction or cancellation of War Debts...
...must to all men, came to Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, head of Campbell Soup Co. (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929). Last week his heirs heard the terms of a 35-page will. To only son John Thompson Dorrance Jr., 11, will go his father's library (with the proviso it be kept intact until he is 50), his father's grandfather clock, and one-fourth of the estate. Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance receives a similar portion. Four daughters (Ethel Mallinckrodt, Charlotte Kelcey, Margaret Winifred and Mrs. Nathaniel P. Hill), each receive one- eighth...
...Main proviso: The employer of an habitual drunkard shall pay half his wages to his wife or family...
...were instrumental in organizing many of the horticultural collections at the Harvard Botanic Garden, it has been thought wise to transfer to the Lexington garden those collections which will no longer be appropriately grown at the Harvard Garden. Any plants which have been given to Harvard with a special proviso attached will be transferred with the same understanding...
...about 3,000 gamecocks, were outdone last week, not because agents of A. S. P. C. A. had invaded pits and interrupted fights; not because the owners of fighting cocks were fined $10 each; not because the contesting birds were automatically condemned to death in accordance with a proviso in the state law. They claimed that it was useless and cruel to kill the gamecocks by placing them in chambers filled with carbon monoxide gas, making them unfit to eat; that since gamecocks are carefully fed, housed and usually young, it would be kinder to wring their necks and donate...