Word: optional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Lords. Not much time has elapsed since the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Herbert Murray Burge, introduced to the House a bill to control consumption of alcoholic beverages by local option. The bill secured the support of the "dryasdust" Lord Astor; the Government also gave its support with a number of reservations...
...payment was not so much its amount- that is in accordance with a regular schedule for future debt retirement- but the form in which the payments were to be made. In negotiating her debt agreement with the U. S. Treasury, Britain was allowed to make her payments at her option in U. S. Liberty Bonds at par. When former payments were made the Liberty issues stood at 98 or 99, so a perceptible saving to the British was thus realized. Now, however, owing to easier money in the U. S. this Spring, every Liberty issue is above...
Harry Grindell Matthews (TIME, June 2) plunged deeper into an orgy of mysterious dickering with prospective purchasers of his invisible "death ray." Refusing an offer of ?1,000 from the British Air Ministry for a two-weeks option, provided he would test his machine on a government motor instead of on a motorcycle engine in his own laboratory, Matthews melodramatically seized an airplane and hopped off for Paris just as process servers reached the field to serve a writ of injunction on him from Edgar Grubbins, A. H. Daley, and J. S. P. Sanborne, English capitalists who claim to hold...
...further explanation of his change of view, President Eliot related two sets of observations which he had made of the "local option" method of regulating liquor sales. The first observation was made while he was spending most of his summers on the island of Mount Desert, in Maine. Although the Maine prohibition laws were rigidly enforced there, at the neighboring summer colony of Bar Harbor it was impossible to enforce the laws at all, because of the importation of liquor from neighboring states. Later in Massachusetts, when Cambridge was dry and Boston Wet, Dr. Eliot again observed the failure...
...university travel year in Europe will begin October 1 or January 1, at the option of the student. The courses offered in universities will cover a good range of subjects so that students can choose freely, but an aim will be to emphasize the peculiar cultural contribution of each country. The English period, extending from three to six months as the students themselves may decide, will be conducted at King's College and the London School of Economics in London, providing courses in English history, politics literature and modern languages. A short period in Brussels devoted--to the history...