Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, was anxious to get it passed speedily. He managed to have the Senate start work at 11:00 a. m. instead of at noon, but that did not hasten matters appreciably. He then said that if action did not rapidly speed up he would bring about 12-hour sessions, from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m., with no recess for supper...
Firmer. Next day Herr Luther abandoned all attempt to conciliate the Right?played to the Socialists of the Left, who helped him to railroad through the Locarno Pacts. He declared positively that the Cabinet would hasten the entrance of Germany into the League, and announced his intention of calling for a vote of confidence on the morrow: "The Government will not attempt to carry on by backstairs tactics or shillyshallying." The session closed amid a Luther motion from the Centre...
...important result of the compromises in the committee was that the Democrats agreed not to oppose the bill as a body. So on the floor it will be "non-partisan," with support from both parties and subject only to individual attack. That factor should greatly hasten its passage...
...celebration of that Order's 50th anniversary (TIME, Jan. 4) by exhorting a public gathering at Adyar (near Madras) to turn their thought toward the far Himalayan heights and beseech the world's Saviour (for her and her followers the Brahmin, Shri Krishna, of 500 B.C.) to hasten his reincarnation and the worlds salvation...
...will deny the possibility that eventually the Arctic regions will be filled with lanes of human traffic. If Captain Wilkins can fly successfully from land to land across the polar desert, he will hasten the eventuality. That is the great utilitarian purpose of the venture. The sporting and the scientific purposes converge on the Ice Pole, which is farther distant from any port than any other spot in the Arctic, and which for this reason is more difficult of access even than the North Pole itself. Scientifically, there are reasons for supposing that the Ice Pole is surrounded by land...