Word: provisos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first five peace treaties - with Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania and Finland. They will be formally signed at Paris on Feb. 10 and go into force when ratified by the major powers. Even after 16 months' debate, the treaties were not complete; some clauses, like the proviso that "navigation on the Danube shall be free and open," need further negotiation before they can be implemented. The treaty highlights...
...Article 27, the famed land-for-the-Indians proviso, legalizes breakup of big estates and prohibits division of "small properties." The new amendment, by finally denning small properties, would do away with the confusion that often led gun-toting squatters to move in on peaceful neighbors...
...other features of the present Constitution should be altered concurrently in order to clear the last traces of the present "closed-corporation" system. First, a required University audit of all Freshman Affairs books, and, Secondly, the revision of the present amending procedure of the Constitution. Under the existing proviso it is impossible for any groups but the Council itself to amend the constitution. The corporation is not only closed, but was meant to stay closed...
...unspecified term-presumably for at least a generation. It took over a half-century to produce anything near a definitive biography of Lincoln. There are still Lincoln documents denied to historians: the Robert Todd Lincoln collection, which he gave to the Library of Congress in 1921 with the proviso that they remain sealed until...
...other features of the present Constitution should be altered con-currently in order to clear the last traces of the present "closed-corporatino" system. First, a required University audit of all Freshmen Affairs books, and, secondly, the revision of the present amending procedure of the Constitution. Under the existing proviso it is impossible for any group but the Council itself to amend the Constitution. The corporation is not only closed, but was meant to stay closed...