Word: ac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, where last year there was a seat shortage affecting 14% of the school population, this year there were reported to be no ac commodations for 28% of the children of school age and this in spite of a score of new buildings. Little excuse for Mayor Hylan and his School Board was found by critics in the fact that Manhattan has a shifting population. Five years ago, the excuse, legitimate enough, was that the Government's wartime embargo on schoolhouse construction had just been lifted...
Following Rakovsky, Foreign Minister George Tchitcherin, ex-aristocrat, arose to address the plebs. He was greeted with snappy applause and lusty cheers of "Long Live our Red Diplomacy!" He explained to the crowd that the treaty meant the definite ac-greeted with snappy applause and lusty Power. (Loud cheers.) He ended thus...
...disposed of her opponents most stoutly, coursing around often under 80. Glenna continued pensive as she brushed her own antagonists aside. Finally the two met; Glenna cracked out a scorching drive, Mrs. Hurd hooked into the fence. At the 15th, Glenna won the leg she so wanted. A newspaper ac count spoke of Miss Virginia Palmer, of Shenecossett, whom Glenna whipped 7 and 6 in the first round, as a "frightened opponent." Few, indeed, face Glenna without a tremor...
...injury to justice is in publicity before the trial. Newspaper trials before the case is called have become an abomination. The dan- gerous initiative that newspapers have taken in judging and convicting out of court is journalistic lynch law. It is mob murder or mob ac- quittal in all but the overt act. It is mob appeal. Prosecuting attorneys now hasten to the papers with their theories and confessions. Defense attorneys do the same. Neither dare do otherwise. Half wit juries or prejudiced juries are the inevitable result...
...This was the Syllabus in which the Pope said: "Si quis dixit: Romanus Pontifex potest ac debet cum progressu, cum liberalismo et cum recenti civilitate sese reconciliare et compere-anatema sit." ["Whoever says that the Roman Pontiff can or ought to come to terms with progress, liberalism or modern civilization-let him be accursed...