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Word: provisos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sole unfairness of the present system lies in the assumption of many forced commuters that once they get a foothold in the College they will be able to obtain rooms in the Houses. The form letter sent to forced commuters reads: "Acceptance of admission with the above proviso does not mean permanent exclusion from dormitory living." Although the Admissions Committee offers "no guarantee," it should not offer a hope which figures belie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Half A Loaf | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

...questionnaire thus asks University groups whether they favor extending full-membership to women, and if they would favor the merger if there were a proviso that the organization change its name and/or include Cliffe students on executive boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Group Questions Organizations on Annex Members | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

...likely to approve either an administration measure calling for $1,300,000,000 to be spent over a four-year period or another bill calling for $3,600,000,000 over six years. Unfortunately, Representative Powell may reinsert his amendment prohibiting aid to school systems practicing segregation. The same proviso doomed the 1956 bill. Committee testimony has shown the crying need of our school systems, and a more positive approach to the segregation issue might enable a federal aid bill to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: School Aid | 3/28/1957 | See Source »

...derburg-Glucksburg, which originated in Germany and now rules Greece) and, though he renounced the title officially to become a British subject, he continued to call himself Prince Philip. When Philip became engaged to Elizabeth, King George VI made the ex-Greek prince an English royal duke with the proviso that he be called, like Britain's other royal dukes (all of whom are also princes), "His Royal Highness." But with that settled, most people went right on calling him Prince Philip just as they had before, and Philip himself confessed that he preferred the shorter title. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Of Making Princes | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...beyond this, the administration seems ready to extend student responsibility in other directions, always with the proviso that the students be "capable of handling...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Brown Man's Burden | 11/17/1956 | See Source »

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