Word: recessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four thousand miles from Independence, Mo., Harry Truman threw a wet blanket over fellow Americans' eagerness to travel. Congressmen who wanted to widen their horizons by trips overseas during the recess were told by the President they would have to pay their own expenses ($725.65 via A.T.C. New York to Paris...
Next day only 13 of the House's 435 members were on the floor when Speaker Sam Rayburn banged his gavel, adjourned the House until Monday, Oct. 8. The recess was the longest any wartime House had planned. Members can be called back into session on three days' notice in an emergency (but at least 100 were already off, or soon would be, on extended overseas trips...
...Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater, whose mustaches hung "pendulous in the shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat. During vacations he read the classics, climbed the mountains of Cumberland and relished "the monotony of sweet mountain mutton and 'Mr. Pendlebury...
Outstanding calendar change listed in the announcement just published of courses of instruction for 1945-46 is the moving of the two-week Christmas holiday so that it includes New Years Day. Last year the recess ended on December 31, and all students were required by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to attend classes on January...
Congress was in virtual recess. The House met only every third day; the Senate dawdled over the manpower bill. But every Congressman knew that, before spring was over, he would have to face some crucial legislative problems...