Word: expounders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went on to describe the history of census taking, to expound the fact that the Constitution directs that a census shall be taken every ten years so that representation in the House may be in proportion to population, and then she insisted it should pass a reapportionment bill, which it recently refused to do (TIME, April 19), although there has been no reapportionment since 1911. She concluded...
...Riverbank Court. Memorial Drive, I am going to lean back complacently in my chair at 1 o'clock and listen to two greater vagabonds than I, expound principles on which my life is based. Glenn Frank has wandered from Wisconsin to talk on "The Revolt Against Education" and Sir John Adams has strayed across the Atlantic to give his ideas on "The Now Individualism in Education." They are both charter members of the famous order...
...behest of Premier Takaaki Kato, all Cabinet Ministers forgathered to hear Finance Minister Yuko Hamaguchi expound why all the land tax shall continue to be paid to the Government and not be divided with the provincial administrations as the Opposition desired...
...amount of fiction, maintains an unusual degree of capability. The sketches range in theme from the intrigue of a sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness of style mark each story in turn...
...days previously, the House having gone into Committee of Ways and Means, the Chancellor had mounted the Treasury Bench to expound to "his honorable friends" and to "the honorable gentlemen of the Opposition," including eight ex-Chancellors* and to the country and the world his deep laid plans for raising this fiscal year's revenues...