Word: warrantable
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...impossible to deduce from the results of the poll. A surprisingly large number of ballots were cast with the vote on Prohibition recorded, but with no expression of opinion on the two last questions, and it is probable that the proposals have not as yet received sufficient attention to warrant any conclusive expression of opinion on the part of the College...
Except for the two classic names. there was nothing to warrant excitement. In the first place, the malt tonic is unpotable. While it contains 3.5% alcohol, it also contains 25% solid. One slimy gulp of it is unpleasant, two are unspeakable, three unthinkable. In the second place, the permits granted were only temporary, and if U. S. ingenuity finds ways of using the tonic as a base for soul-satisfying beer, the permits will be, according to General Lincoln C. Andrews, speedily withdrawn...
...legitimacy which will be gained by the various charities which it has been customary for the University to support. The elimination of separate organizations for each drive and the centralization of the collection and expenditure of the funds in the hands of the Student Council suffice alone to warrant the step...
...gave the impression that he expected to attend the special session of the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations, called for March 8, with complete freedom to offer British support to the candidacy of Poland and that he would very probably do so if "circumstances" seemed to warrant...
...Police had received that morning, scrawled in illegible Italian on a piece of brown paper. Policemen had met him at the station. Detectives, ranked around him, had escorted him to his hotel. Now they watched him curiously as he sat reading the epistle that might be his death warrant. He crumpled it in his pudgy fist...