Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian Parliament assembled last week at Ottawa, on Capitol Hill, amid highly extraordinary circumstances arising out of the recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), which gave the two major parties (Conservative and Liberal) an almost equal number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons...
...great was the excitement on Capitol Hill that but scant attention was paid to the conventionally innocuous "Speech from the Throne" by Governor General Lord Byng of Vimy, with which Parliament was formally opened. All ears strained instead toward the House...
Surrounded by a resplendent guard of Fascist mounted police, a lavishly decorated coach slowly ascended the Capitoline Hill, famed cradle of Imperial Rome. As the coach drew up before the Capitol itself, Dictator Premier Benito Mussolini regarded it benignly, and extended a cordial welcome from a balcony of the Capitol itself...
...following professors and their wives have signified their intention of being present: Professor and Mrs. J. H. Beale, Professor and Mrs. F. H. Bohlen, Professor and Mrs. Zechariah Chafee. Professor and Mrs. G. H. Edgell, Professor and Mrs. N. W. Frad, Professor and Mrs. E. B. Hill, Dean and Mrs. H. W. Holmes. Professor and Mrs. C. H. Langford, Professor and Mrs. Arthur Pope, Professor and Mrs. D. A. Prescott, Professor and Mrs. F. B. Sayre, Professor and Mrs. W. R. Spaulding and Professor and Mrs. W. B. Wooster...
...other hand, the universities, while realizing that the attempt to drag the incompetent up the academic hill has been a failure, may feel themselves too dependent upon public opinion to shut out this class altogether. If so, they must establish a clear distinction between the competent and the incompetent, and declare them subject to different laws. They can then carry out their real purpose with the first group, raising standards as high as they please without hurting the feelings of the public, and at the same time they can minimize the dissipation of their energies to the second group...