Word: amendment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...generally supposed that the M. C. C. will accept the recommendation of the Council, and will amend Law 24, as suggested. Such action would undoubtedly be followed in this country, as many of our leading cricketers favor such a step. The effect would be to give the slow breaking bowler a much greater opportunity than he has previously had, and, for a time at least, to reduce the scoring...
...cases already brought before Congress, three-quarters have been adjudged according to the political views of the votes. Mr. E. C. Shoemaker was the first to argue in favor of the negative. He asserted that to carry the proposed change into effect it would be necessary to amend the Constitution, which would be at once difficult and dangerous. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach a president or a member of the Supreme Court, and why should it not have the right to deliberate on the case of one of its own members? Mr. R. T. Paine...
Would it not be eminently fairer and wiser for the faculty to so amend the rule as to make the bestowal of a cum laude dependent upon a certain fixed proportion of A's and B's throughout a student's course and leave the question of D's entirely aside...
ARTICLE XI. A three-fourths vote of the League shall be required to amend this constitution...
VI.SALAD. CRACKERS AND CHEESE.(b) Criticise Bouvier's definition of choses in action. How should amend it so as to include Stilton and Limburger cheese...