Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House of Commons. The second reading of a till to lower the age limit of women electors from 30 to 21 was passed in the House by 288 votes to 72. If the bill is finally passed, it will mean an addition of 4,500,000 women, making a total of 12,400,000 women against 10,500,000 men. All the women M. P.'s supported the bill except the Duchess of Atholl and Mrs. Hilton Philipson. The Duchess said that since a conference had set the age limit, a conference should revise it. She also commented adversely...
...novels on the new season's lists offer an interesting comparison in The Green Bay Tree* by Louis Bromfield and The 'Education of Peter by John Wiley. They show admirably the tremendous difference in Which exists between the War and that just younger, and by generation I mean a "college generation." Both of these young men are sensitive- artistic, well-bred. They spring from more or less the same environment , and they are both, perhaps, Naturally, fond of over-sophistication. Yet, in a sense, these books are a hundred years apart. The Education of Peter is a simple...
This statement was held to mean that Russia would have nothing to do with countries denying recognition. In answer to queries about the U. S. and France, the Deputy Foreign Minister added: "Of course, this doesn't mean that we decline to follow the British precedent of de facto recognition, with a trade agreement, in the case of such countries as hitherto have abstained from any sort of relations with Russia what-soever...
...undergraduates who become members of the Junior Class in good standing should be for the remainder of their stay in College automatically released from all paternalistic regulation in their work. In brief this will mean that compulsory attendance at classes and disciplinary measures such as probation will for them cease to exist, and that in the organization and accomplishment of their college work they will be left to themselves; the initiative will be theirs, to use for gaining their education themselves and thus for their greater profit. What supervision may be necessary will be of the "man to man" type...
...undergraduate in any class should be subject to disciplinary action as the result of hour examinations. With the two upper classes freed from all such action this would mean in effect that no Freshman or Sophomore would be placed on probation for low grades except at the time of the midyear and final examinations. Conversely no student would be released from probation except at these two periods...