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Word: evener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, always jumpy about its constitutional prerogatives, stirred with plans for refusing to accept the Senate's farm bill, for refusing even a conference to reconcile differences between it and the House's measure. The Constitution gives the House sole power to initiate revenue legislation. Many a House leader considered the Senate's Debenture plan a revenue item because it would affect tariff income. The Senate countermoved by planning to insert the Debenture Plan in the Tariff Bill when that comes up from the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Ill Winds | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

What augurs best for Mayor Walker as a candidate to succeed himself is the almost complete absence of a cohesive and well-directed Opposition. New York City Republicans are at a loss for a suitable nominee, are even ready.to fuse with independent Democrats if they have a man to offer. The only Democrat who stands forth seems to be John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan, twice Mayor before Walker. Republicans were last week actually, quite seriously considering allegiance to Hylan, whose vote-following is unquestionably larger than the outstanding Republican possibility, short, swart Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: No. 3 Man | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...never been a sin at Harvard to think for oneself and in the particularly violent times directly following the war, many politically unorthodox professors found their sole defense in the President's office. Harvard men were to be allowed the right to hear both sides of a question even if one of these sides were branded as high treason by a majority of alumni. Of all the achievements which the last twenty years have seen-in Cambridge perhaps the greatest is this sturdy maintenance of an honored tradition of rugged Yankee independence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY YEARS OF HARVARD | 5/18/1929 | See Source »

...Lampooners tried hard to halt the tremendous onslaught of terrific clouting which the team from 14 Plympton Street uncorked, but even the old, but able Robert Leader "Lefty" Lampoon was unable to stop the barrage of base hits which rained down from the bats of the CRIMSON cohorts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Irresistable Crimson Onslaught Downs Fighting Jesters 23 to 2--Crew Race, Detained, is Rowed by Moonlight | 5/17/1929 | See Source »

...management has been unable to accept the gift because of the lack of necessary funds to feed and groom the animals. The result is that, with the meager $1200 subsidy of polo, the team can never use its own horses in games away from home. This fact is made even more annoying because there are no contests scheduled in Cambridge this spring since there is no playing field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINOR SPORTS MISMANAGEMENT | 5/16/1929 | See Source »

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