Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfy these objectors, the Gooding bill was passed. It forbids the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant lower long haul rates than short haul rates except under specific conditions: 1) where the freight transported is for export or from import and 2) where two railroads compete in the same territory, but one has a circuitous route to a given destination (that is, the road with the circuitous route is allowed to make its rate as low as that of the line with the straight route; 3) for block express...
...discharge its lightning; Dr. Sun hurried to China, became first Provisional President. On Jan. 5, 1912, the Chinese Empire became the Republic of China: the Manchus had been deposed, but the six-year- old boy-Emperor was allowed to keep his title for life and the Government promised to grant him a yearly subsidy for the same period...
...Significant, too, the absence of the "smart" New York so-called literary crowd. They, apparently, are not willing to be bored. Parlor tricks are more important to them than the honest and frankly sentimental message from John Galsworthy. I mark this as a sign of their ephemeral quality. I grant them that they are more amusing ?but, alas!?their epigrams will make few dents in the progress of the ages...
...years old, he belongs to that Civil War generation that stamped its political and aesthetic ideas upon the nation. An Associate Editor of The Century Magazine, he became Editor. It was he who edited the famous Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. It was he who first urged Grant to write his Memoirs. He originated the Keats-Shelley Memorial at Rome. He wrote seven books of poems, finally collected in 1919. If to modernists his style appears sentimental or stilted, it is because the moderns have found different, and possibly no better, ways of expressing the same emotions...
...Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, William McKinley...