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Word: optional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...option" clause originally considered was not included in the resolution both because some Faculty members felt it unnecessary and because the result of the Council poll showed few students who actively desired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Backs Single A.B. Degree; Waives Present Latin Requirement | 12/4/1946 | See Source »

...ring been tried in Bad Nauheim instead of Nürnberg he probably would have been given an official reprimand, fined 500 marks and given the option of letting Justice Jackson off scot-free or prosecuting him for maliciously instigating his trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...strafing of the dry law caught Kansas politicians off guard. So effective was his attack that the down-at-heels Democratic organization nominated him as the gubernatorial opponent of Republican Congressman Frank Carlson (TIME, Aug. 19). Then he wrote a wet plank (repeal, state-operated liquor stores, county option, no saloons) into the Democratic platform. By last week Harry Woodring had come up from nowhere to a 50-50 chance for election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Hotfoot | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...profits of this first big beachhead of U.S. capital in Africa looked good. After every South African gold strike there has been an overall industrial boom. If it comes out of the workings of the Orange Free State field American Anglo-Transvaal, through its option to participate in any of Anglo-Transvaal's operations, will be in on the ground floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD: 18-K. Beachhead | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Getting the money was not so hard. Metropolitan, which has already sunk about $2 million in the dream and has the option on further financing, was impressed with Zeckendorf's hard-headed operating plans. The ten-story hotel, office, and professional buildings are expected to be self-sustaining. The rest of Bill's world of tomorrow will be let out at a basic moderate rent plus varying percentages of gross sales (e.g., 1% for food stores, 15% for millinery shops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REAL ESTATE: Lemons to Grapefruit | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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