Word: batch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when the cars drew up before the steps leading to the Senate wing. The President assisted his wife to alight and they went up the stairs and entered. Mr. Coolidge was escorted to the President's room, where he found a batch of last-minute bills awaiting his signature. The Cabinet and Director Lord of the Budget joined him. General Dawes was led to the Vice President's office, where Senator Cummins, President pro tempore of the Senate, welcomed...
...That unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the above paragraphs all the existing rights of signatory Powers under the Treaty of Versailles are reserved. Transfer Committee. The second batch of problems which nearly wrecked the Conference was concerned with the transfer of reparations by debtor Germany to creditor Allies. These problems were only accepted by the Conference at one minute before the twelfth hour and took the form of resolutions which were highly technical in composition. Summed up, they laid down rules for the regulation of relations between the Transfer Committee, which is to act as receiver of reparations...
...Immediately following his nomination, congratulatory telegrams began to reach Mr. Coolidge from all over the world. In the first batch of messages was one from Irwin B. Laughlin, U. S. Minister at Athens. William Howard Taft expressed his joy by telephone...
...shock to her husband, with his hard and fast notions of right and wrong among women, that his wife is tarred with the same brush as the defendant, but he manages to get over it. The picture resorts to the favorite current system of wadding up a batch of stellar talent (Sylvia Breamer, Bessie Love, Myrtle Stedman, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Carr and Hobart Bosworth). Lew Cody plays the roue till murder seems highly desirable...
...three volumes that have been the most popular with the public are "Harvard Memories" by President. Eliot, which discloses the spirit of the Harvard of a generation ago; "Bits of Harvard History" by Samuel Francis Batch-elder '93, which brings forth a fascinating store of history and legend about Harvard from the days when the College was little more than a boarding school; and "The Achievement of Greece" by William Chase Greene '11, in which politics, economics, science, aesthetics, philosophy, and religion are woven into a coherent story which gives complete familiarity with every aspect of Greek life...