Word: options
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upper classmen who have been concentrating in Geology, have the option of continuing under the regulation in force under which they started, or of shifting to the tutorial system with a general examination...
...contract between the American Railway Express and the railroads for hauling express expires in February 1929. At that time, according to the contract imposed by the Government, the railroads may exercise a legal option to purchase the American Railway Express at cost less depreciation. Suppose, ruminated Wall Street, the new "invisible" owners of the American Railway Express decline to sell and invent ingenious legal delays. Then the eight railroad masters, aided by legal masters, would reply by simply purchasing express wagons, express trucks, renting express offices for the railroads of the U. S., leaving the American Railway Express with great...
...Mexican scheme then passed unanimously, but Delegate Hughes imme- diately secured unanimous passage for a Peruvian amendment stating that "at the option of each State" its representative on the Board could continue to be identical with its diplomatic plenipotentiary in Washington. Thus all was virtually as before...
Each man, however, has the option of choosing his own Titans. It is in the selection of the universal and immortal Titans that the difficulty arises...
...both into his gruff old master's clutches. Follow many pages of mystery while Lord Furber, Mr. Sutherland, and certain members of the crew vie for the nimble Miss Perkins' favor; eventually comes to light Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber has had dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted in the hope he will listen to his host's chequebook; that Miss Perkins is an innocent victim...