Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee of Three abandoned a proposed visit to the Chancellor. Then the Council decided that it had not "unanimously" decided to discourage the enrollment of Jews. Now the Council explains that the report of its action was entirely misleading and that it was given out as a breach of confidence, anyway...
...case in point ought to help heal the breach in Economics A sections split on the question of a songster as a productive laborer...
...reference to the "Advocate's" rejection of "Ereiotatos", aside from being a breach of editorial etiquette, savors of a loyal irrelevance. An apology is doubtless due the board from the editors of the anthology for their disregard of such lofty aesthetic standards. M. A. B. says the Poetry Society is in no way expressive of student taste. This is a compliment. He ends his review with the word, envy. This is not without psychological significance...
...such work. It was a great shock, therefore, when in the last five minutes of the play the designing "Mrs. Borridge" bursts forth, in the pressence of her intended victims, in a tirade-against her daughter for not "getting something on paper" which might serve as evidence in a breach of promise suit. The scene is pure farce of the most extravagant kind and tolerably funny. But it is in keeping neither with the character of the shrewd fortune-hunting woman nor with the tone of the play as a whole. The closing speech where Lady Remenham, a close friend...
...apply their time, knowledge, and experience in appropriate legislation and administration. A congressman who is swayed by personal interest, who dares not to risk his chances of re-election for the measures that are best for his country, is betraying his trust. But it seems that something very like breach of trust is the order of the day, for representatives, when an organized few threaten them with failure at the next election, immediately bury their better judgments under tons of campaign truckling and subserviency. When legislators thus live with their ears to the ground, an unorganized minority of agitators...