Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject of taxation was sent a 30-page pamphlet containing the report of the committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce on federal tax reduction. Half of the space in this report was given to arguments in the negative. The members receiving this report were requested to study it and to vote "yes" or "no." . . . The six votes of the Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce were apportioned and cast in accordance with the replies of this group...
...altogether necessary to salvation for every human being to be subject to the Roman pontiff." So wrote Pope Boniface VIII in the year 1302. Two centuries later Leo X, the pope who failed to comprehend the significance of Luther's revolt against the church, explained that "every human being" meant "all Christian believers", in an attempt, it seems, to mitigate the arrogance of the papal claim to universal political supremacy while retaining it in things spiritual. Even as thus amended the statement is sufficiently uncompromising, but it is the sort of thing one can well imagine popes in the fourteenth...
...unity at heart cannot help expressing profound regret at the encyclical, no matter how much it was to be expected; for the friendly and understanding attitude of such outstanding Romanists as Cardinal Mercier and his successor, who since the war have been periodically conferring with certain Angelicans on the subject of unity, have led us to hope that Rome was about to abandon its medieval intransigence...
...University debating team will undertake its second debate of the year when it meets the Columbia speakers tonight at 8 o'clock in the Lecture Hall of the Horace Mann School in New York City. The subject for the argument is: "Resolved, That Al Smith is eminently qualified for the Presidency." Last Wednesday evening the Harvard team debated the Boston College speakers unsuccessfully on the same question...
...Council's amendment of the disputed sixth clause in the Powers of its Constitution in which it claims the right "to prohibit any man who show an indisposition to respect the recommendation of the Council from becoming and remaining a member of any college activity subject to open competition," is weak. To add "in order fully to protect the rights of the undergraduate body" fails to invalidate any of the objections offered by the CRIMSON on December 8. The matter is merely further befogged and the new words introduced are conciliatory, without being explanatory. As the clause now stands...