Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defeated in his attempt to prohibit all forms of "long and short haul," Senator Gooding promptly introduced another bill to prevent "the evil" in some particular cases. His new bill is designed to prohibit railroads from making special rates .to compete with waterways other than the Panama Canal. This will be opposed as bitterly as ever by-the Great Lakes representatives, but since it does not greatly affect rates between the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, Senator Gooding hopes to get some support from seaboard Senators. But it is unlikely that this bill will agitate the present session...
...State Department tried to extract the terror from the still unrealized invitation by explaining that undoubtedly the League was merely summoning a meeting of the members of the Court to consider the U. S. reservations, and that there was nothing in such an act which would prevent the U. S. from getting agreement to its reservations individually by note from the Court members...
...Ground Rule. To prevent undignified extra-gridiron scrambling for stray balls, during which spectators and players have so often been injured, the Committee held that in future the playing area will be identical with the chalked gridiron itself. Once a fumbled ball crosses either sideline, it will be considered dead and shall belong to the team whose player last touched it within the area of play...
...that the poet's death (1915) occurred with the search still unfinished. But we have glimpses of the Flecker we know best?gorgeous lines. The Don Juan of the play loves a gypsy, deserts her in a motor, is betrothed to a Prime Minister's daughter, murders him to prevent a war, kills his prospective sister-in-law, whom he has unconvincingly kissed a few pages earlier, and finally shoots his fiancee. The late Prime Minister's statue then beckons the hero to his fate. "Many Casualties" would have been a more appropriate title than "Don Juan...
...best in life--which often is the abstract--if the does not effect intellectual probity and curiosity then it has failed. And the world suffers from the unhappiness of ill health, poverty, and an unsatisfactory sex life, the greatest evils in Mr. Russell's opinion, and those which prevent progress and destroy delight...