Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mere presence of females at Oxford and Cambridge universities was for many years considered preposterous, most irregular. Certainly the young ladies at Somerville College and Girton College would have to look sharp, behave themselves suitably. Last week it became known that Girton, at least, was letting up on restrictions. Abolished was the chaperon system by which Girton girls could make visits and go to dances only in pairs. They may now visit alone in college rooms or lodgings. They may receive young men in their common rooms until 10 p. m. instead of sending them home...
...Squantum Naval Reserve Air Base yesterday, in accordance with the new plan of the department to furnish all Juniors in the course at least one opportunity a year to receive some practical instruction in naval aviation. Other groups of Juniors will go up at more or less irregular intervals, as the weather permits, for the remainder of the current year...
...slip counted in his own quota, presents, it claims, many obstacles. The amount of book-keeping, already great, would be enormously increased, and require expensive additional clerks. Convenient or peculiarly attractive Houses would soon become eating centers, and would be overcrowded; under such conditions, bound to be unstable and irregular, it would be impossible to estimate with accuracy the number of meals to be served at any House at any time. Moreover, if men are permitted to eat wherever they wish, with no limitations, the whole unitary purpose of the House Plan, centered especially in the dining room, is nullified...
Impartial observers rate him thus: a homespun Senator above the average in industry and energy; a fair legislator with 20 years' experience behind him; an economic conservative friendly to Labor; an influential Democrat, irregular only on the tariff, who could play an important part in a Democratic administration. His term expires March...
...your part? Mayor: Well, technically yes. Governor: You had no account there? Mayor: I had no account there. Governor: In other words this is a check on a bank in which you didn't have an account. Mayor: Isn't it a form, after all? It is irregular but. . . . Another Seabury charge had to do with 300 shares of a new bank stock which had been set aside for the Mayor and which was apparently paid for by cash from City Hall. When Mayor Walker testified that the stock was "practically four or five times oversubscribed," Governor Roosevelt...