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Word: provisos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college there." But after a few years the young ladies got tired of doing Harvard work, with Harvard professors, and getting no diploma at all. So the Society petitioned for the right to award degrees, and got it only when they organized as a college, with the specific proviso that the President and Fellows of Harvard stand behind every Radcliffe degree. The name itself is in honor of Ann Radcliffe, who in 1641 had been the first woman to donate money to Harvard...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: All About Radcliffe: It Ain't Necessarily So | 12/15/1942 | See Source »

...shot up. Defense of this legislative larcency was to be expected, but the farm bloc then insisted on 112 per cent by writing in a clause that wages to labor should be included in costs. Since only a few thousand well-to-do farmers hire laborers for pay, this proviso is both arbitrary and unnecessary. Only this minority fights to the last furrow for inflationary farm prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five More Days | 9/26/1942 | See Source »

Many there were, both in & out of Washington, who felt that if anybody could do it, dynamic Henry Kaiser was the kind of man. Such a supporter was Grover C. Loening, pioneer airman, adviser to WPB's air-cargo committee. He favored the plan 100%. His only proviso: Kaiser must not cut into combat-plane production. Kaiser-boosters passed around a Bell Aircraft Co. cartoon which seemed to them very apropos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mr. Kaiser Goes to Washington | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...shaking started a year ago when the Brotherhoods demanded their nationwide 30% wage boost. G. P. McN., like the other roads, agreed to part of the raise. But unlike the others, he added a proviso and stuck to it-no more featherbedding. Roared he: "A day's work for a day's pay." So last December his engineers and trainmen struck. So G. P. McN. went on running his railroad as usual, except that he used only 55 trainmen instead of 83-the number which the Brotherhoods' featherbed rules would have required for the same work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Stuffing Out of Featherbed | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...will of the late Hugh Johnson disclosed that his longtime right-hand woman, Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, forfeited $40,000 when she married Colonel James B. Newman Jr. last December. The will left her mining stock worth that much, with the proviso that she stay single till after Johnson's death (last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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