Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shaw's argument is that Mr. Coolidge continued to be Vice President with the added duties of President when Mr. Harding died. Said he: "The framers of the Constitution made clear provision that no man shall be President of the United States of America unless and until he is elected to that particular office in the manner provided in the Constitution. The duties of that office, under certain circumstances, but not the office, may fall upon the Vice President...
...mummery had been imperfectly timed last week, the Commons came scrambling after the Black Rod into the House of Lords with unseemly haste. Soon the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Balfour, knelt and presented to His Majesty a scroll containing "The King's Speech." In clear, vibrant tones, distinctly audible to everyone, George V read what purported to be his own speech...
...human eye does not function to its best advantage in the dark or in looking at a fairly well illuminated object when the eye itself is surrounded by darkness," according to Mr. Henry. "There should prevail as high a degree of general illumination as may be consistent with securing clear and easy vision of the picture...
...Verum Corpus", but Josquin Des Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted away in a breath...
M.LICHTENBERGER'S book is a good introduction to the spirit life and works of the hair-raising critic-philosopher-poet Fredrich Nietzsche. As a whole the treaties are concise and brief, the style, simple and clear. The book is not a criticism of Nietzsche but an apology and an appreciation. The adverse critics are frowned on as irreverant and unjust. The gaps in the philosophy are filled in, the rough places smoothed over. It is strange to see the disciple swallow the master in a way that old Friedrich never swallowed anyone or anything. This over-adulation occupies a minor...