Word: peering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Richard Burden Haldane, First Viscount Haldane ("Labor Peer"), took exactly the opposite stand, saying ominously: "If you try to strengthen the House of Lords, we part from you. We will fight you as long as we are here...
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...come, not every weekend, but at long intervals like festivals and vacations. They are occasions, not common occurances. Paid coaches, likewise, are rather the exception than the rule. Even a paid coach works largely through the team captain. The captain, being an undergraduate and to other things, only a peer of his subordinates on the team is a much less despotic ruler than the average coach. Where coaches are not paid, those of college teams and sometimes those of university teams also they are men closely associated with the students, either dons or recent "blues", men booked to rather...
Powder burns stung Il Duce's lips and cheek, the pistol had been fired so close. Yet he interposed to prevent a mob from lynching his would-be assassin, the Honorable Violet Albina Gibson, sister of the irish peer, William Gibson, second Baron Ashbourne. Dictator Mussolini, just, secured for Miss Gibson a safe refuge in jail. She was pronounced insane by Italian alienists (TIME, Aug. 16); but Fascist feeling ran so high that it was necessary to give her continued jail protection. Last week, one year and one month after her irresponsible act, Miss Gibson was put aboard...
...accorded a full measure of welcome. Situated as it is in a great metropolitan center, the University too often relies on the undoubtedly amusing but nevertheless inhospitable attractions of the city to those who have come not only to enjoy Harvard's academic distinctions but also at least to peer into that illusory thing known as Harvard life. When they depart it is with kindly feelings toward Boston, and towards the scholastic facilities of the University but with a total ignorance of Harvard students as friends and companions...