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Word: adjourns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successfully dull and amicable was the remainder of the public session, that the Conference was able to adjourn into committees, late in the week, without perceptible discord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: 1,000 Delegates | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

This evening, at the 15th anniversary banquet, President Lowell will present the shingle and key to each of the 34 new members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The ceremony will take place at the Union at 6.30 o'clock, after which the meeting will adjourn to the Faculty Room for the annual winter banquet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRTY-FOUR WILL RECEIVE P. B. K. KEYS AT BANQUET | 12/3/1926 | See Source »

...headed by Representative Michener of Michigan. He said, as everyone knew he would, that Judge English had handed in his resignation a week before, that President Coolidge had accepted it, that the primary purpose of the impeachment proceedings had been accomplished. Then Senator Charles Curtis moved that the Senate adjourn as a court of impeachment until Dec. 13. Since Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6, the House will have a week to confirm the recommendation of its Managers to abandon the trial of Judge English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Futile, Brief | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...much to hope that this council at Lausanne can find a way by which a perfect creed can be created. The conference will meet, will deliberate and will adjourn; and that is about as far as church unity will progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMAL FUTILITY | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...from Peking (TIME, April 5, et seq.) its co-conquerors, Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, would set up a stable government. That hope has eluded fulfillment like a mirage and Peking has grown hot, hotter, too hot. Last week the delegates passed a motion to adjourn indefinitely, packed their traps and trinkets, departed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Too Hot | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

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