Word: transferable
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...boarding a street-car during the rush-hours, I have found it possible to avoid the conductor's eye and thus arrive free in Boston, then, by coming forward boldly and demanding a transfer, it is equally easy to obtain return passage to Cambridge...
...Council of Ministers appointed by Mussolini is sitting to arrange the details of the transfer of the Italian State Railways to private investors. A lease of the railroads is to be granted to private companies for long periods and they will be permitted to take all the profits up to 7 per cent, anything above that to go to the State. Absolute freedom in administering the railways will be given to the companies...
...conclusion of the Russo-Japanese war, China agreed to transfer the lease of the Liaotung Peninsula from Russia to Japan. The lease expires March 27,1923. Japan in 1915 insisted on a 50-year renewal...
...proposal is pending before the New York Charter Commission to transfer the control of the schools of New York City to the State in order to free them from politics. A similar bill affecting all the cities in the State is now before the Legislature. The proposal has aroused heated newspaper discussion pro and con, the issue being "Home-Rule" versus " Efficiency...
...abstract the transfer of Haughton from Harvard to Columbia will prove deeply interesting as a test of the absolute value of coaching intelligence to a football team's success. At Harvard Haughton was supplied with every modern convenience in the way of equipment, some of the greatest material in football history, and the curious Harvard spirit which presupposes supremacy. At Columbia his general coffers will be cramped in comparison, his material quite without Groton and Exeter training, and his constituency lacking in what may be termed the superiority complex. If Mr. Haughton constructs a first-class team on Morningside...