Word: governed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even in the U. S. Observers last week pondered some of the things people would want to know about Mr. Baker apart from his record in public office, which everyone knows?when the Democratic politicians get around to considering...
...Mitchell, one-time Colonel and Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service: "Every line that Admiral Magruder has written ... is based on actual truth! ... President Coolidge is the worst public official in office. He has made an industry of office-holding and is trying to rule the country, not govern...
Many persons acclaimed the sending of Mr. Morrow to live with Mr. Tomorrow as a stroke of extrapolitical good fortune and wisdom. One close student of U. S. govern-ment ventured to speculate on the possible future effects of the stroke...
...Governors of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming govern almost one-tenth of all North America, more than one-quarter of the continental U. S. As to rainfall, theirs is the dryest quarter. They were an important group of political potentates when they all came together last week at Denver...
Gradually rules rather than decorative diversion came to govern the sport. There grew to be two main divisions-the one called "bowling" or "ten-pins," playe'd now in indoor alleys by barflies and roustabouts; the other called "Bowls" or "Bowling-on-the-Green," a handsome recreation for gentlemen, a game which in tempo compares with other present-day exercises, as the courante compares to the Charleston. It is played now by members of the Elizabethan Club at Yale University, and by the members of many an old, austere and gentle club, who are too antique for the frantic...