Word: proceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire counsel for both sides to get together this morning, right now, and arrive at an agreement of some sort or other which will, when the Court reconvenes, permit this case to proceed as speedily as possible to a conclusion. Locate these witnesses and begin today to do it. Use the telegraph, the radio or the cable, but get them, and if what they know is admissible, prepare them for the witness chair...
...Chamberlain, immaculate, bemonocled, rose from his seat. He read a unanimous resolution in which the League Council outlined its future action as follows: 1) A League Council Commission will proceed at once to fix responsibility for the outbreak, assess damages, see that all prisoners of war are released, and recommend steps calculated to prevent further trouble. 2) The Commission will be chairmaned by Sir Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador to Spain, and will consist of a French and an Italian officer and two civilians, respectively Dutch and Swedish. 3) It will have an allowance of 100,000 gold francs...
...high over head with one hand, lay down on the stage with it, cuddled and caressed it and rose again while the Aquarium rocked with cheers. He fastened chains around his arms, lifted that beloved titanic dumb-bell and burst every chain before putting it down. Samson refused to proceed any further...
After the game all cars parked within the Soldiers Field enclosure and on the Boston Parkway must leave by the Parkway westward. Cars parked within the enclosure on the Stadium Street side of Soldiers Field may, however, proceed west along North Harvard Street...
...spite of Mr. Miller's direct imputation to the contrary, intelligence can never be sure of itself, both because it can never delve to the bottom of its facts, and because, being a human attribute, it is subject to the intermittent rule of human fallibility. To proceed on the unproved theorem that intelligence can consciously change the world is so great risk that it is justified in proceeding with the caution which Mr. Miller deplores. Until someone discovers a genuine criterion of truth, intelligence must become accustomed to what Mr. Miller calls the "infamous waste and cruel suffering that...