Word: provisos
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...This proviso resulted from one of the factors which had thrown the future life of the program into jeopardy: the possibility that a student in it might be drafted before having completed the seven year span...
...week's end, trying to be conciliatory, Wilson offered to make a labor man a top-level assistant in his office. An aide declared that Wilson had previously made such an offer with the proviso that the man give the job his full time, but Labor had turned a cold shoulder. A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal...
...that it is necessarily mobilizing for war, much less for the unconditional surrender of the last Communist. The complete extirpation of Communism is a proper object of prayer, but hardly of international policy. The U.S. can readily accept what might be called "conditional coexistence" with Communist governments. The general proviso is that the Communist governments shall not be able to lash out on a campaign of world conquest. Particular conditions would include 1) international inspection and control of atomic arms, 2) dismantling of police and slave states...
...Practicing Poet. No one at Oxford knows exactly what Henry Birkhead had in mind when he endowed a chair of poetry (established 1708) with the proviso that its occupant be elected every five years by convocation, i.e., popular vote. It is the only chair of its kind at Oxford or Cambridge. As the 33rd incumbent, C. Day Lewis will be one of the few practicing poets ever to occupy it. In the past, historians and theologians predominated. His most distinguished predecessor, Matthew Arnold, held the post two terms...
...President Hall rules wisely and well. His door is always open to troubled students. He seldom loses a chance to plug for academic freedom, reads both a Republican and a Democratic newspaper to get both sides of every question. When a wealthy donor offered Ivy $500,000 with the proviso that it not be used for students of "certain races and creeds" ("After all, one cannot be a traitor to one's class"), Dr. Hall turned her down flat: "Life is like a college, Mrs. Marshall, you don't learn much by attending only one class...