Word: bidden
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...Guise, 66, refugee for 66 years, must have known what was up. For bidden by law to set foot within the Third Republic, and normally resident at Manoir d'Anjou, Belgium, the Bourbon pretender to France's vacant throne turned up this week in Morocco...
Newshawk Perkins did as bidden, and had his picture taken. Fair deduction by the press: that anyone who expects Franklin Roosevelt to be frank about the third term idea is indeed a dunce...
Hallowed by custom on many a U. S. campus are those annual rites to which prospective football material from nearby high schools is bidden to be entertained, inspected and secured. In Madison last week a University of Wisconsin faculty meeting weighed a way to make athletic proselytism foolproof. Instead of the old informality, argued serious 34-year-old Historian Robert Leonard Reynolds, why not organize a regular six-week institute each year? Promising athletes would spend the morning brushing up on their studies, the afternoon exhibiting their wares to the coach. Those who showed up well in both tests would...
...British Minister to Addis Ababa, heroic Sir Sidney Barton, was in London last week on a "leave" from which His Excellency is most unlikely to return to Ethiopia. He was bidden to Buckingham Palace and decorated by His Majesty with the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire for having withstood a hot siege of the British Legation by Ethiopians who proved themselves savages of the most ferocious type as soon as their Emperor fled his country (TIME...
...asking questions, of men and of books, is not satisfied by an orderly and unilateral presentation. If the degree is awarded on general examination as well as on credits, one important step has been made. But only when the courses become series of lectures to which no one is bidden and on which all their auditors are independently examined, with the thoroughness which the relation between the subject matter and their own field would dictate, can the tutorial system come into its own. It will be urged that the efficiency of the college as a police officer would be materially...