Word: batch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eric glowed for a moment with satisfaction at the thought that a new League Assembly Hall and Secretariat will shortly rise upon the Bartholoni property and on adjacent lots. Sir Eric's good humor vanished as he settled down to the vast batch of despatches which are his perennial due. Ominous developments concerning the League were occurring at London (see COMMONWEALTH, "Chamberlain Grilled"), at Berlin (see GERMANY, "Tirpitz Roused"), at Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "Houghton Stumbles...
Applications received after tomorrow will be filed in order of their receipt, after all other requests for tickets have been met. The batch of applications which are made on time will be looked after by lot in the regular manner...
Turkish Atrocities of the perennially familiar type were reported by Laidoner, whose lack of sentimentality or easily shocked squeamishness is ably attested by the fact that he once ordered 130 Esthonian Communists shot in a batch because they were about to start a revolution...
...refreshed, the Premier spoke at Richmond Hill, Ontario, and then the first of his previous day's labor became apparent. In the first place three members of the Cabinet had re- tired (two were appointed* to the Senate) and three new members had been appointed, likewise a whole batch of new Liberal members were appointed to the Senate...
...year's Finance Bill and "damn the consequences." The House did. Two ensuing general elections brought their lordships face to face with the problem of whether they should pass a bill to abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King George to create a batch of peers sufficient to carry the bill. Even such confirmed Tories as the late Lord Minto frowned on the latter alternative, but Lord Milner stuck to his guns and advised the House to resist to the end. It did not, and he was beaten...