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This change, however, does not hasten the day of voluntary chapel attendance. Unable to provide facilities for the upper classmen, the University has ruled that men shall attend chapel on alternate days of the week and on every other Sunday. One platoon will attend on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; the other on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. At stated intervals the groups will be shifted in order to equalize the week-ends...
...could do this with no compunction of conscience, believing God, knowing my heart and purpose in so doing, would pardon me, as I am sure he pardoned John Brown of Harper's Ferry for doing what he did to hasten the overthrow of human slavery...
...member of the American Red Cross Life Saving Corps, and one of its Examiners, I hasten to set your writer on the right path. We teach that the true cause of death by drowning, asphyxiation (smoke or gas), or electric shock is paralysis of the diaphragm. A man requires oxygen, of which the air contains 20%, and he must eliminate carbon dioxide gas, the reaction of which itself will paralyze or inhibit his diaphragm...
Dwight Filley Davis, Acting Secretary of War, wrote to the Mayor of New York City, demanded that the city hasten its construction of planned incineration plants so that it may cease to trouble the great sea - and New Jersey-with its offal...
...Chamber ratified the Washington eight-hour working day convention, negotiated at Washington in 1919. The convention does not become operative for France until Germany ratifies, but M. Durafour, Minister of Labor, promised the good officers of the Government to hasten Germany's action. Four years have already passed since the pact became effective (July...