Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union on Monday evening, has already put in motion a plan of insular government that will remove every trace of American supervision, inspection and direction, is the substance of information released by the War Department at Washington on Tuesday. This change of authority is going forward with the consent of President Coolidge, thus showing that the visit of Quezon and his companion, Sergio Osmena, representing the politicos of the islands, has already begun to bear more fruit than the promises of the last five presidents, cited in his talk by Quezon, to give the Philippines self government as soon...
Matters were left last week with a J. G. White representative, who sailed for England to interview the British Foreign Office in the hope of securing its consent to the undertaking; for it is held by the U. S. corporation that the Sudan has more to gain than to lose by the dam's construction...
Technique. After a person has consented to hypnotization (and consent is practically always essential) the simplest procedure is to put him in an easy posture. An easy-chair is excellent, a bed less so because it takes practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that...
Senator Curtis was in lively earnest. "I will not consent," he said, "to become a candidate if the delegation is to be selected with a view to voting for me for a few ballots as a 'favorite son.' . . . I will not allow myself to be used as a 'stalking horse' for anyone...
...dilatory attitude during the general strike and coal strike cost the nation millions of pounds. More important, since the strike virtually nothing has been done to force the mine owners to reorganize their industry-the most badly needed reform in the country, by common consent...