Word: consists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese nobility is made to consist in sacrificing one's wife to the caresses of a foreigner, in order to rifle that outsider's secret papers. This almost smacks of anti-Oriental propaganda, it is so completely alien to our more prosaic conceptions of heroism, that the Occidental spectator remains rather impassive to the heart-rending close, in which the naval commander who sold his wife for the secrets of the British rule of the waves is made to stab himself most ceremoniously and mortally in spite of his glorious victory. If it comes to frank appraisal, it must...
...quorum shall consist of a majority of the members of the Council. A vote of the Council shall be declared if two thirds of those voting favor the project. If there is less than a majority of those in favor of the motion, the motion is laid on the table. If there is a favorable majority which does not reach the requisite two thirds, a week shall elapse, at the end of which time a majority vote shall decide...
Although the CRIMSON did not escape the depression, it weathered it in fairly reputable style. Now that business conditions are improving, the possibilities of large salaries are exceeding's bright. All active editors of the CRIMSON share in these salaries, which consist of 50 per cent of the profits divided in a method outlined by the constitution...
Original moves in any story formula as tightly established as the Grand-Hotel-in-Motion must necessarily consist of variations so stylized that, like the moves in chess, they are sensational chiefly to the initiated. One such device is having the off-duty pilot begin a flirtation with the heiress which he culminates grandly only after he has assumed his official status as Head Pilot...
...this season the backbone of the team will consist of Nelson D. Warwick '36. captain and defense man: Leavitt Howard '36. goalie; Arthur F. Duffey, Jr. '36. attack: John D. Whittemore '36, point: George D. Baristone '37, attack: John J. Witherspoon '37. point...