Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Premier developed his thesis amid a stramash of interruptions. He had no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Under present conditions the coal mining industry could not support the miners' standard of living unless they would work an extra hour. He proposed merely to suspend...
Though the government remained firm in its determination to jam through a suspension of the Seven Hours Act, the Labor party announced its irreconcilable opposition. Former Laborite-Premier Macdonald declared: "The Premier's speech was most disastrous,... will harden the miners into adamant resistance." Secretary "Emperor" Cook of the...
?Omniscient Dr. Thwing "happens to know" that Cecil Rhodes, when he founded the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford 23 years ago, viewed with disfavor scholarships at U.S. universities for British students. It is said that a prime motive actuating his founding of the Rhodes scholarships was a desire to express...
6) Who overruled Queen Mary's desire to give Miss Jessie Betts a lift? (P. 12.)
For no one ever after a time of foolishness fails to realize how very much better the status quo would be had he been wiser. Yet human nature being what it is certifies the recurrence of these moments in the lives of most people. Neither the freshmen who threw eggs...