Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were only eight clubs competing and Harvard's withdrawal would have seriously prejudiced the success of the concert. Because of this Harvard agreed to compete, with the understanding that the prize song in the future have the approval of every contesting club. This understanding with reference to unanimous consent was incorporated in the rules and regulations of the Corporation...
Japanese Intervention. From Tokyo a cold decisive message clicked out over the cables: "By order of General M. Kawai, Chief of the Japanese General Staff, and with the consent of the Prince Regent of Japan and Premier Kato, 3,500 Japanese troops have been despatched to Mukden, [capital of the Chinese provinces of Manchuria]. This action is taken at the request of the consuls of the Great Powers at Mukden, who have asked protection for their nationals from the armies of the Chinese military leaders, Chang Tso-lin and Kiio Sung-lien, now attempting to engage each other...
...assume any obligations under the League; 2) that we may participate upon an equality with other states in the election of judges; 3), that the Congress shall determine what part of the expenses we shall bear; 4), that the statute creating the Court shall not be amended without our consent; and to these I have proposed an additional condition to the effect that we are not to be bound by advisory opinions rendered without our consent...
...assembling of the 69th Congress saw four newcomers peeping into the Senate and looking around for their seats. All other Senators had occupied their seats, in the session of about two weeks held last March to confirm appointments and consent to treaties. The four newcomers are to fill the seats of senators who have died since last March. All are nominally Republican...
...poetry, famous for his translations of Aristophanes. The manuscripts sent to Frere included the first volume and a part of the second of Coleridge's work, "My Literary Life", as well as his "Sibylline Leaves", the latter being a collection of his poems, which, as he writes, he "dared consent to be known as of his own will as well as authorship...