Word: excepting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. Although he did not wrestle here in his Freshman year, he made the University team last year, competing in the 175 pound and heavy-weight classes, where he was a consistent scorer. This year he wrestled in the heavyweight class and won all of his matches except two, losing twice to Cornsweet of Brown. He was the only man on the team to win against Yale this year...
...course Mr. Root did not come as the official representative of President Hoover, though he came from him. just as Statesman Stimson went to settle the Nicaraguan situation "from" President Coolidge. He had no title, no authority except a tacit understanding that he spoke for the President. Nowadays U.S. diplomacy is like that; and so last week plain "Mr." Root was greeted with as many courtesies by the League's Big Three* as though his title were "Special Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary? which it is in all but the capitalization, so far as Europe is concerned. Only...
...hospital he said: "I'm not feeling sorry for myself or worrying about the past. I'm not accusing anyone of cheating me. It was the breaks of the game that I lost out in the company I founded. I'm looking forward to the future. Money means nothing?except to insure comforts for the future...
There has been a good deal of talk about the freedom of the Harvard undergraduate to shift for himself intellectually, unsupervised except for the minimum of requirements. Behind this talk there has been much action that is courageous and liberal. But the College must go the whole way. There can be no halt-way measures, but they will exist as long as there exists the school of instruction which works out its effect in the pressure of insistent minor requirements...
...several times in the text. Less than a quorum "may adjourn from day to day." Neither House shall without the consent of the other "adjourn for more than three days." "Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President....." In case the Houses disagree "with Respect to the Time of Adjournment" the President "may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper." From the above and other passages it will appear that "adjournment...