Word: proceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as the great complex of misunderstandings and confusion so tragically developed in the story of Hamlet could not proceed but by a series of misfortunes and could end only in an avalanche of disaster, so it has seemed with Ireland. As an historian said of the British Isles in the thirteenth century "Wales was conquered, Scotland unconquered, Ireland half-conquered". With the anomalous situation growing out of this half conquest it is safe to say that the Irish problem began, and like the play it has become, through differences of temperament, recrimination, abuse of power; muddy thinking, stubbornness...
...nine University entries in the I. C. A. A. A. A. cross-country run, which will be held at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon at Van Cortlandt Park, New York, will proceed there directly after the Harvard. Yale football game this afternoon...
...When these ballots have been returned the election committee should check first from the names on the unopened envelopes. Then the ballots should be removed and separated from the envelopes to preserve the secrecy of the voting. The counting would then proceed as is customary...
...aforementioned delegation at Washington, however, sees in Japan's policy only a clock for numerous sins both past and yet to come, and says, quite frankly that once Japan has pacified the other powers with good intentions and convinced them that the Siberians are the aggressors they will proceed with the true purpose,--further conquests in Siberia...
...unfailing topic of conversation for boys and girls it is noticeable the "Rosalind's" and "Gloria's" became suddenly all prevalent. The explanation may be that the younger generation had already a desire to be clever or fast or both but felt a certain timidity as to who to proceed. Mr. Fitzgerald merely showed them the way. Oscar Wilde, and the innumerable others,- who have held that life imitates art instead of art emanating from life, have a case in point here...