Word: biennial
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...country's biennial anachronism, another "lame duck" Congress, prepared to sit in Washington. In the Senate, the anachronism was particularly visible. Instead of the clear Republican majority elected by the people in November, the Senate will function until March with Republicans and Democrats almost even in power, with the balance resting on insurgent Republicans and Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite dentist, Senator Shipstead...
...will celebrate his tenth anniversary as mainspring of the-order-of-business and lord high referee (unofficially) of parliamentary perplexities. A crisp-mustached Marylander, collaterally descended from President John Tyler and directly from Signer Carter Braxton of the Declaration of Independence, faithful Clerk Page is certain of his biennial re-elections so long as the House stays Republican...
...afternoon to launch its final drive in preparation for the climatic clash with the Yale bulldog, less than two weeks off. The Crusader contest this Saturday will be an excellent opportunity to set the Crimson gridiron machine in motion once again and oil up the rusty cogs before the biennial journey to the Bowl at New Haven...
...auditorium crowd. Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, physicist for the Bell Telephone Laboratories and one of the inventors of television, nervously approached Professor Michelson and in a timid-seeming voice presented him with the Optical Society's Frederick Ives Medal. Dr. Ives gave the Society money for the biennial presentation of the medal in memory of his father, the late Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor of photoengraving...
Diagonally across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last fortnight went an insult to Philadelphia. From Erie, at the farthermost corner of the state, came the announcement that the United Lutheran Church of America would not convene in Philadelphia at the next biennial assemblage (1930). The reason for the snubbing of Philadelphia was the "graft scandals" of recent development. Milwaukee, free of graft scandals, was chosen instead...