Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policy has been adopted chiefly for two reasons. It allows men leaving college in February to proceed with graduate study without interruption, and it makes possible the fullest utilization of the School's limited facilities through the replacement of men who have been dropped from the September class...
...motion to authorize the Government to proceed with certain economies by decree: For the Government, 333; against, 205, or 538 votes out of 620 Deputies. As this motion was being passed an angry mob was only prevented by a strong cordon of police from rushing the Chamber...
Repairs to the Shenandoah are due to be completed May 1. Secretary Denby gave orders for the advance guard to proceed to Alaskan waters and for the reconstruction of the fuel-oil-ship Patoka...
Slave of Desire. The scenario is taken from Balzac's The Magic Skin. About half way through Poet Raphael (hero) meets the Magic Skin and things proceed to happen. The latter is one of those skins you love to touch. All you have to do is touch it and make a wish. Liquor, ladies and lullabies come romping in. The only difficulty was that Raphael got only so many wishes to the inch. Each wish shrunk the skin. When it reached the size of his palm he was to be introduced socially to the Grim Reaper. Before that occurred...
Under the present state of affairs no work can proceed. For there is neither a recognizable governing party nor a recognized Opposition. What the reported conferences among the Liberal leaders and between Baldwin and the king will bring forth ought soon to be apparent. Whether it be some loose coalition or a reconstructed Conservative cabinet under a new leader, it can only prove the most temporary of make-shifts. The situation cannot be cleared up, however, until the permanent trouble is removed--until either one of the parties is outlawed, or a dual system, changed to meet the exigencies...