Word: warrantable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small fund necessary for its upkeep. It is doubtful that there would be much difficulty in collecting a sufficient sum. Even though a small original outlay might be called for from the University, the importance of the problem and the definite advantages of the plan more than warrant some sacrifice...
...attention to the fact that native trees of eastern Asia and eastern North America are closely related.*Reason: geological and climatic changes affected both regions at about the same time throughout the ages. The elm is one of the trees whose Asiatic cousins may be resistant to blight and warrant transplanting...
...help press for extradition through diplomatic channels. Last week in Athens Mr. Harness firmly declared that the Greek Court of Appeals had no right to pass on the substance of the Insull indictment but only upon the legal regularity of the extradition request. In his pocket was a warrant signed by President Roosevelt for the arrest of Fugitive Insull whom Forest Harness was ready to escort home like any common crook...
...Royal Warrant stated that the qualification necessary to win the V.C. was "conspicuous bravery or devotion to the country in the presence of the enemy." This rule holds good to this...
...Fourth Precinct desk sergeant's telephone tinkled. Those Negroes over on School Street, someone said, were at it again. It had been going on three months. Everyone else who lived around there was sick of it. A John Doe warrant was filled out and soon School Street was clanging with police patrols from six precincts. The police entered and found the old factory clean enough. There was a refectory with more than a dozen long tables and a kitchen whose iceboxes burst with pork chops, chickens, choice cuts of beef. There was a large nursery where some pickaninnies slept...