Word: unless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Widow's Might. In a cream-colored stucco house in suburban Teusaquillo, things had changed, too. There, beside the bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial...
Such an intention does not include overthrow of an enemy's political system unless the system is an obvious threat to international security. Says the commission: "No nation has the right forcibly to impose upon another the political system that it fancies, even if that system be dubbed 'democracy...
Advice to Wooers. Edison couldn't hear the roaring of a train, but when two women who were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...
Robbins urged full participation in the election last night, warning that. "Unless there is a sizable turnout our NSA delegates will not be true representatives of the College." Partially owing to a serious ballot shortage, only 1750 students voted at the last election...
...student organizations and this would seem to be a poor year to start. Yet about fifteen student organizations have asked for a subsidy of some sort this year and we could easily spend a hundred thousand dollars a year assisting various activities. Obviously we can not subsidize the Band unless we are also willing to subsidize the Glee Club and the Debating Council and the Polo Team and the Orchestra and the Dramatic Society and the Advocate and possibly the HYD or even the Lampoon. It might be difficult to decide whether the HYD or the Lampoon were more worthy...