Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge's reason for delaying this appointment so long is the distance of the U. S. from the Philippines. A recess appointment might be vetoed by the Senate causing the appointee a 10,000 mile round-trip for nothing...
...words of his wan fables, a somewhat severe shade, one to be kept properly prisoned in the dusty darkness of a schoolroom desk. The urchins, now grown into babbitts or clowns or bigwigs, sang their geography, etched Spencerian parabolas into their copy books, played "duck on a rock" at recess, spelled out the stories in McGuffey's; then they walked home on dusty roads, swinging their book straps and talking to each other, stopping to cut their initials into fence rails or the bark of a tree. The songs they sang, the books they read, the things they learned made...
...examinations. Only those happy individuals who have managed to avoid the first year monster, German A, have the privilege of deserting the scene of their labors at an early date. The rest, a group which includes most of the class, are fixtures until the noon which opens the recess...
This will be the only public showing of the tests, and although the manager of the University Theatre did not know exactly when the films would arrive, they will certainly be shown before the summer recess, and probably within a few days...
...Received notice from Premier Baldwin that his Cabinet will fulfill one of its major pre-election pledges by introducing, after the Easter recess, a bill enfranchising all women above 21, whereas 30 is the present minimum voting age for women...