Word: presents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
Many a Congressman complains of having only one office-room. A $7,500,000 annex to the House Office Building will soon be built just west of the present building...
...colleges throughout the country I am afraid you are right. ...* You have finished with that bugaboo of conventional respectability which is today hobbling hypocritical legislators who vote 'dry' and live 'wet.' This to you is nauseating. This gives me the courage to believe that the present disastrous and demoralizing conditions cannot last into the period when some of you are representing your constituents in Congress...
...Some members of Princeton's present junior class boast that theirs is "the hardest-drinking class since the 'Nass' [Nassau Inn] "the bar closed...
...recent meeting in the annex of the Times Building in New York, the Academic Council, composed of representatives from all 20 college entered in the contest, instructed its Executive Committee to make several important changes in the conduct of future competitions. Until the present time, the essays submitted have been in the nature of editorial comments. The proposed plan is to make the essays more informative end interpretive than previously...