Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which govern the King's powers (chiefly those of the settlement of 1689-Declaration of Rights) are extra-legal rules cemented by precedence and the disuse of the King's prerogative, or what Maitland called "constitutional morality." This means that the King, in order to prevent a clash of laws or arouse public opinion against him, is compelled to do what his predecessors have done. He therefore usually accepts the advice of his ministers, dissolves Parliament when requested, gives his assent to laws.* But it remains an incontrovertible fact that he is legally within his right to undertake...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...
Heading the list in point of importance, at least to Harvard eyes, is the Yale-Dartmouth clash at New Haven. Meeting the Elis for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, Dartmouth has supreme faith in its team. The Big Green eleven has rolled up stupendous totals in its first three starts. When Norwich was snowed under 40 to 0, reports came from Hanover that a championship eleven was in the making. A 52 to 0 walkaway over McGill and a 38 to 0 triumph over Vermont have served to increase Dartmouth confidence...
Holy Cross, will meet a severely battered Boston University team, and should win easily, while Dartmouth and Vermont will clash, in what is augured to be a one-sided victory for the Hanoverians...
...Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild, of New York University, reiterated his solemn warning to the world against overpopulation, urged an ethical birth-control and a curb upon migration. Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, U. S. N., took the occasion to predict a clash of yellow and white men in Australia when America and the Orient overflow their Continents, and also pointed a finger of suspicion at Japan for the late Philippine disturbances. Suave Tsurumi avowed Japan's innocence...