Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will and is survived only by relatives more distant than first cousins. This amounts to a reversal of the laws which have forced the State to act as a trustee for intestate estates, in the interests of "lost heirs" who may be starving at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 2) The virtual abolition of the law of primogeniture, as part of a general equalization of the rights of younger sons and females on a par with eldest sons. 3) The abrogation of such quaint but archaic legal curiosities as "gavelkind," "Borough English" and "copyhold." "Grand and petty sergeantry," however, has not been tampered...
...securing the insertion into the League Covenant of Article XVIII, whereby League-Member-States are obliged to deposit all their international treaties and agreements with the League Secretariat, which is likewise obliged to make them public as soon as possible. Mr. Wilson considered the establishment of this practice a virtual death blow at "secret diplomacy...
...Deputies had considered even half the bill in detail, it was obvious that an utter impasse had been reached. Despairing, M. Painlevé saw his measure go down by the slender margin of 275 to 278 when a vote was taken on the the much criticized Fifth Article, envisioning a virtual moratorium on the short-term Treasury bonds falling due next month (TIME...
What to do about it is a more difficult question. The law brought about the virtual extermination of printed notes on lectures, but there seems to be no legal remedy in this case. Probably the only effective solution will be the gradual development of a state of opinion among instructors and students alike which will refuse to tolerate the patronage of these institutions. Until this happy condition is brought to pass, the prosperity of tutoring schools will remain a pretty fair barometer of in how far Harvard is a university in the truest sense of the term...
...blockade of the Yale offen Saturday, Harvard won virtual victory over a team that early in the season was heralded as many times its superior. The comeback against odds that the Crimson has made is the most startling and creditable of the season. That, according to press writers, Coach Fisher was striving to build up a defense to hold the Yale scoring to a minimum while Coach Jones was debating whether to roll up an obliterating tally or content himself with a moderate victory for the sake of many substitutions, must make Cambridge hearts glow with ghoulish glee. Yale...