Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great way. Plans for this chapel, not definite plans it seems, have been published. These show a curious arrangement. A Gorgian type of main body is used that is an oblong with round-topped windows on each side, and as both ends, under the gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle of one of the sides of the oblong rather like the stack of a power plant...
Detailed debate on the bill began at 11:00 one morning and continued without recess until 1:05 a. m. the following morning. The supporters of all three of the contested measures held to their stand, defeated amendments to strike out the contested provisions, overrode a determined filibuster. The opponents of the measure had only one success. They succeeded in adding a provision for a six-foot channel in the Missouri River from Kansas City to Sioux City, 400 miles. As the bill was taken up, it carried appropriations of $36,000,000. With the added project it may cost...
Three days later the Chamber of Deputies reassembled after a recess, and Premier Briand found himself once more baited by irreconcilable and stubborn "blocs" among his nominal "Coalition of the Left" supporters...
...many more than 70 will desire to enter these courses. This was about the number of those who signified their intention of taking such a course if it were offered, in a poll of the present enrollment of Biology 1 taken by Professor Parker shortly before the spring recess. If more than 100 apply limitation will be necessary...
...that is lacking when it is concerned only with the Watch and Ward society and the Lampoon's difficulties. And the undergraduate body would throw its academic worries into a corner, and depart to be joyous, and return undisappointed, and the bored way in which the College accepts the recess that is doled out to it would be forever replaced by an abiding sense, however, false, that they had really got something for nothing...