Word: proceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...splendid opportunity to knock the present social system and Men with a capital M for a row of rhetorical rockets. All of which, with subsidiary complications, well played by a competent cast, should furnish sufficient entertainment for the theatre goer who prefers to see his drama proceed along fairly well-worn lines...
...could be kept out of French ports. Conferences of ship owners are taking place in England to decide on a concerted plan of action against the new prohibition ruling. It is suggested that foreign ships may call at Halifax instead of New York, or drop their liquors there and proceed to New York. It is also suggested that foreign vessels may station rum ships just outside the three-mile limit, leaving their liquors "on deposit " while they touch port. All these plans are more or less discounted as impracticable...
...American Government is obviously uncertain as to what is happening in the Celestial Republic, and has therefore despatched the General to find out. Leaving Manilla at an early date, he is expected to proceed to Peking where Minister Schurman will assist him in diagnosing the ills of China...
...individual. Kant's "categorical imperative" fits the case conveniently: If everyone did as the individual feels inclined to do, there would be empty classrooms on the day before and after each holiday. Professors, rather than waste their lectures, would agree not to hold classes that day; students would proceed to extend the vacation still farther, and the cycle would be followed out to absolute zero. Such a prospect demands that the line be drawn somewhere, and the authorities have drawn it in the logical place-at the beginning...
...will no doubt remember, my worthy friend, the agreeable day which we passed in the delightful gardens of the Moulin Joli in charming company. You will, perhaps, also remember that after dinner . . . I let the rest of the company proceed and remained behind alone in an alley. Here an indefinite number of dead frames of little flies had been pointed out to us, belonging to the species of ephemaries whose generations succeed one another day by day. These insects only exist for ten hours...