Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mechanism. In theory the House is run by a Speaker, a Majority Leader, a Minority Leader, the Rules Committee, the chairmen of the several committees-and an unofficial body known as the Republican Steering Committee. In actual practice the legislative program is framed and executed by a small group of insiders who constitute "the works" of the House. Some are prominent, some merely proficient. All are influential, in that they control important blocs of votes on the House floor. This inner group is an indefinite organization, based largely on personal relationships. It operates more by common consent than by formal...
...American Opera Company comprises a group of "singing-actors" whose average age and weight are remarkably low. Only one of the stars weighs over 150 pounds, and none are over 34 years...
...interrupted by a compulsory first class after a holiday would do well to wait until 11 o'clock this morning. At 10 o'clock in the Music Building, Miss Rozi Varady, distinguished Hungarian cellist will appear in a program composed of selections from the works of Haydn and a group of old dances...
...England championship wrestling team of last year, the first Harvard group of grapplers ever to defeat Yale in the history of the sport in the University, has this year dwindled to only three men. These last year's lettermen, Captain Joseph Lifrak '29, J. H. Burns '30, and Nathanfel Warner '30, will form a nucleus around which the rest of the 1928-29 team will be moulded...
...assigning the rooms, a maximum of 12 men will be put in one group as they applied. These large groups will be given preference over smaller ones. The applications will first be sorted according to the number of men in each group. The rooms will then be assigned by lot to different groups of the same size instead of by order of preference, the method employed formerly...