Word: provisos
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...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...
...certain individual who preferred to be known to the world at large as "Anonymous Alumnus" (it is rumored that Mr. Bingham and a certain select group really do know who this gentleman is) offered the Harvard Athletic Association $350,000 for an athletic building with the proviso that the University raise the rest of the funds necessary for its completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate...
Veto. Also envisioned in the Young Plan was a veto proviso drafted last week at Baden-Baden to give the central bank of each nation power to limit or prevent any transaction of the B. I. S. in the country of the central bank in question or in its currency...
...first the Chinese Government's wiry little Foreign Minister, Dr. Cheng T'ing ("C. T.") Wang (Yale, 1911), vehemently asserted China's "right" to grab the C.E.R. The Treaty of 1924, he pointed out, provides that the Soviet railway personnel must not engage in Communist propaganda, a proviso often flagrantly violated. Right or wrong, however, Dr. Wang changed his tune when the screws of diplomatic pressure were applied. Presently the Chinese Foreign Office announced that...
...long ago the U. S. Polo Association: called upon Hawaii for ponies for an international match. Sportsman Dillingham contributed two prize mounts, with the proviso: "If anything happens to them, we are to stand the damage." Harry Payne Whitney did his best to return this patriotic courtesy by helping Mr. Dillingham pick out some fine Virginia mares and serving them free at the Whitney stud, to give the Islands a good new strain...