Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Representatives has now come to number 435. Nobody wants any more Congressmen?even 435 are too many to be of any use except when they are split up into a variety of committees. Each member now represents an average of about 250,000 U. S. inhabitants. But the injustice lies in the fact that whereas some Congressmen represent less than that number of males and females, some represent a great many more. Notably, Congressman Crail of the Los Angeles-Hollywood district is the sole voice of 1,250,000 people, so that a vote in Los Angeles...
Scarcely any one in England would think of calling Mrs. Stanley Baldwin "Lucy,"' except of course her husband, the Prime Minister. Even the smart friends of Miss Betty Baldwin, including some of London's most notorious titled set, would never refer to a "church" in her mother's presence as a "Godbox."* Therefore it was quite "in character" for Mrs. Baldwin to go, last week, to a quite old-fashioned little church bazaar...
...their first bulletin the Professors confidently predicted complete recovery. Candid, they described dealing with the Senator's face in such thoroughgoing fashion that "it will be temporarily impossible for him to take food, except through a tube piercing the bandages...
...work on the winter track squad will be confined for the most part to short workouts during the midyear examination period, time trials in all events will be run off this afternoon. According to the schedule of track practice, time trials are held every Saturday afternoon throughout the year except on days when meets are scheduled, thus enabling Coach E. L. Farrell to check up on the improvement of various members of the squad as the season progresses...
...need of social work that may be met in part by such college men as care to offer themselves. The confining of the direction of Brooks House policy to officers selected from among men of experience in the work, instead of from a body of undergraduates of no qualifications except success in other fields, cannot fail to benefit the external side of Brooks House activity...