Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three American members of this Committee which is composed of 24 persons from many nations. It is one of the few institutions of the League which utterly forgets nationalism, as the members are chosen for their qualifications in medical work rather than for their citizenship in a certain country...
...compelled to attend the national schools of the respective successor states. The minority treaty concluded, for instance, between the Allied and Associated Powers and Roumania on December 9th, 1919, declared that the racial linguistic and religious minorities are entitled to maintain schools and that the state must to a certain degree subsidize them. In reality, however, this is not true; it exists only on paper. In Czeckoslovakia there is one such school to every 6,919 Czecks or Slovaks (because "Czeckoslovak" indicates an artificial and only apparent citizenship), but only one to 59,254 Hungarians, and more than half...
However, it is into the two departments. Commercial and Traffic that many graduates of Liberal Arts colleges go, and in which they may find for themselves a definite career. This career would have certain differences from a great many other businesses. The American Telephone & Telegraph Company and Associated Companies is probably the largest combined organization, and employs the largest number of people of any group in the United States. In many ways it is analogous to the Government. The ultimate salaries, while good, are probably somewhat less than would be the case elsewhere. This is more than compensated for, however...
...addition to the plant, traffic, and commercial departments, there are in the operating companies certain staff departments, such as statistical, purchasing, and accounting, into which men may go, but their particular abilities and specialized training in the company is the important factor...
...Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper." From the above and other passages it will appear that "adjournment" may be not merely due to the expiration of the life of a Congress, but from day to day, or until a certain day, or sine die. The occasion upon whch an unsigned bill is "pocket vetoed" occurs when "the Congress by their Adjournment" prevent its return. Adjournment from day to day is clearly not such an occasion. Adjournment sine die would seem clearly to be a case where the bill could...