Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youth to the chief professorship of physics at the Lwow Polytechnical Institute. He won fame by his efficient superintendence of Poland's railway mobilization against the Soviets' attempted invasion six years ago. Last week he announced: 1) The Cabinet will at once convoke the National Assembly, which will elect a new President who must be acceptable to Marshal Pilsudski. 2) The Cabinet will then resign, and the President will name a new Premier. 3) Thereafter Parliament will be prorogued by executive decree until a new general election can be held...
...first recognized the peculiar fitness of "Mokri the Blind" for this post after he himself had become wearied by the necessity of personally inspecting hundreds of quite unpresentable maidens, merely because custom decreed that the Sultan alone of men should actually look upon the women with whom he might elect to consort. When it was noised about that "Mokri the Blind" had gradually developed his sense of touch to a point where it was almost equally discriminative with the Sultan's practiced eye, the entire responsibility of making a preliminary choice among candidates for thb harem was passed...
...compelled to run from 6 to 10 heats and finals in the two day competition and in each heat and final he must run faster than the preceding one. As a matter of fact the ordinary hurdler will do better by specializing in one event as should be elect the two competitions, by the time he reaches the final he will have a difficult undertaking to place in the event...
Works. British officialdom chanced to elect Ellis' second book (Sexual Inversion) as the point of attack for a long-contemplated descent upon some people who were trying to better the lot of illegitimates. These people had put the book?a technical monograph?on their stall of sex literature for no better reason than that their publisher and Ellis' had sent it along. Nevertheless, Ellis' name was dragged through the sewer so efficiently that only lately has he been mentionable in polite districts of the tight little isle...
...entire body of members of the Student Council for 1926-27 will meet next Monday night to elect their officers...