Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same hour the University team arguing on the negative side of the question will meet the affirmative speakers of the Brown debating team at Providence on the same subject. To complete the traingle, the Brown team upholding the affirmative will journey to Middletown, Conn., to meet the affirmative team of Wesleyan College...
...series of the intercollegiate League debates will be held Saturday night at 8.15 o'clock in Paine Music Hall, when the affirmative team will debate the negative team of Wesleyan College on the question. "Resolved, That all nations abandon extra territorial rights in China." The University negative team will journey to Providence to debate the affirmative team of Brown University on the same subject...
...mooted that the real objects were to discuss the anschluss (or union of Austria and Germany) and a preliminary economic entente. Despite denials that these subjects were not broached, it was pointed out that two such distinguished German statesmen, overburdened by the pressure of work, would not make the journey to Vienna for the simple object of discussing a mutual League policy. The denials were therefore classified as ordinary diplomatic white lies...
...waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan, a poem which bored him before its completion. Whenever he saw the desk being set up in his chambers after some journey, it reminded him of an interminable effort. He had never, on any occasion, been content when he began writing on it, he had never been honestly satisfied when he pushed back his chair and left it. But John Jeffrey, his valet, seemed to admire its neat construction; he kept Byron...
...Emperor"? Not among the marchers, but far away in London attending to "urgent business." True, he did wire the "boys" that he would be with them for a Sunday, but what is one day out of the 12 that the "army" expected to take to accomplish its journey? These were some of the questions and answers of supercilious critics...