Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain reasonableness underlay the Rumor. Between President Hoover and Justice Stone exists a thoroughgoing friendship. Justice Stone was in the Hoover family circle the night its head was nominated at Kansas City. He fished with the President-Elect Hoover off Florida, and there suggested the name of William DeWitt Mitchell for Attorney-General. He dropped in for a friendly morning chat the day Mr. Hoover became President. He was among the first asked to join the medicine-ball exercise at 7 a. m. back of the White House...
...discovery that a great corporation which manufactures both paper and electrical power has been acquiring a financial interest in certain newspapers has provided the occasion for declarations on the importance of an independent press. These declarations are important. Although no evidence exists that the newspapers concerned trimmed their news or editorial policies to suit the interests of the power company, it is plain that the relationship is embarrassing. Their own avowals of independence prove that much. However conscientiously they may have acted, the relationship is ambiguous and cannot be defended...
...time covered by the facts contest from eight months to ten months. The general character of the competition will remain unchanged. The three hour examinations will not be divided but it is intended to allow contestants to spend the time to their best advantage instead of requiring a certain number of minutes to be spent on each question...
Before the advent of this new time the Dining Halls were subject to a "rush" just before the end of the hours for serving--at each meal. A certain class of fellows consistently come in the Halls at the last possible moment. Were the evening meal served from 6.00 to 10.30 there would be a large number come in at 10.29. On every holiday, Sunday, or any day on which the time is extended for serving, there is always this joyful rush at the last minute...
...They have two purposes; first, to give a dramatic representation of the method and spirit that exist at the Assembly and Council at Geneva, and second, to form a new and interesting type of debating society in which a certain reality is given discussions of international problems since the students debate from the view points of the nations that they represent...