Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Finance Committee, jealous of the grant of such wide powers, inserted the six words into the bill. Their effect would have been to nullify the bill and Poincare refused to accept them...
...Pound Class.--P. R. Grant 2G.B. defeated Benjamin Elsner...
...declared unimportant and of no significance in indicating the undergraduate's attitude toward religion. That this last conclusion has some basis of truth was well-demonstrated by the large and interested audience which turned out on one of the worst days of the winter, to hear Dr. Percy Stickney Grant last week...
...motion to grant the final installment on a Sudan irrigation scheme, which is sponsored by the Government, because it provides employment, the Left Wing of the Labor Party split with MacDonald. The measure was passed 397 to 43 votes. The 43 represent the dissentient voices from the Clyde. Neil McLean, one of the fiercest Clyde-siders, was particularly indignant and practically accused the Government of treachery to the workers...
Going on to speak of faith, Dr. Grant said, "Faith is not pinned down to certain well-rooted points of thought or fact, but depends upon our general attitude toward life, let us say our love for it, our confidence in it, our inferences from it. I am the last to deny that religion deals with affections, with imaginations and personal deyotions, and with high adventure...