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Word: apportionments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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A frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Snowden V. Churchill | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

By freeing the student from minute supervision of their studies and by relieving the teacher of an eleventh hour burden of semester reviewing, it is expected that the final results shown in examinations will represent and earnest effort on the part of the student, who may apportion the time to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will It Hold? | 3/16/1927 | See Source »

Johannesburg news organs hotly demanded that some other method than a foot race be used to apportion what promises to be a $5,000,000 field.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whooping Diamonds | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Smacking down his fist the Premier concluded: "I will make no attempt to apportion the blame for the stubbornness and folly which have resulted in the continuance of this strike. ... I have laid before the House the steps which the government proposes to take whether a settlement between the miners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Baldwin Speaks | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

The ideal is that education may be free from pedantry, that the facts necessary for scholarly reputation in a subject be not forced upon the casual student caring only for its cosmic position, at the expense of an understanding of its scope and color. All students, save those with professional...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAYSTACK | 6/8/1926 | See Source »

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