Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twice the Finance Committee of the Chamber proclaimed by heavy adverse votes that the only clause of the Loucheur bill which would ever reach the Chamber was the relatively unimportant article proposing stern punishments for income tax dodgers. Thus rebuffed Loucheur kissed the rod to the extent of asking the Committee what sort of proposal it would endorse. The Committee haughtily took the almost unprecedented course of refusing to offer any suggestions whatever, and M. Loucheur was forced to resign as Finance Minister- admittedly a beaten...
...combining of effort in a common cause raises the opinion of both laborer and college man for one another. To a considerable extent the Dominion thus prevents the formation of class barriers Canada has in part made good her boast that a university educator is within reach of the humblest...
Outlook. "The road to Germany's recovery is not fully traveled. The critical years, when the total allotments will reach 2,500,000,000 gold marks annually, begin Sept. 1, 1926. . . . The operations of the first year, under an 800,000,000 gold mark external loan, have not been so much a test of German capacity to pay as of German economy to adjust itself to a return to stable conditions...
...mendicant, and betook himself with five disciples to a gorge in the Vindhya Mountains, where he gave himself up to fasting and terrible penances. His fame spread "like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies." One day he decided that to attempt to reach God through the emptiness of his belly was preposterous. He ate a healthy meal; refused to continue his morti- fications. His disciples left him. For a long while he wandered, alone and gloom-benighted, beleaguering in the darkness of his mind the fortress of eternal knowledge...
...Christmas recess will start on Wednesday, December 23, and last until Saturday, January 2, inclusive. Travelling time will be allowed those whose homes are at a distance from Cambridge, to enable them to reach home before Christmas. They will be permitted to take the last train which will get them home before noon on December...