Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then some individual finds his vocabulary cramping and proceeds to inflate it. If he is a man of affairs, with little time to study the dictionary, he may resort to his own inspiration. Such pressure from within gave us "normalcy", a queer word which turns in on itself twice and comes out with a meaning contained in its first four letters. From the same source came a more recent addition to the American vocabulary, the word "humorically" which is seen to have a shade of meaning all its own. A Senator's mind fired by the spell of oratory...
Considerable uncertainty preceded the decisions of the court of last resort, as the questions decided had never come up previously in any state. Lower tribunals in New York were unanimously of opinion that an unrecognized government has no status of any kind, and thus no standing in court as a party plaintiff. But an appellate unit decided that the Soviet government, being a de facto government, could be sued. This decision left all de facto governments in a precarious position in America, their liabilities were enforceable, but their assets were not collectible here. The result was immediately apparent. An attachment...
...monitoring or reports of absences to the college office. The fear of disciplinary action cannot serve as a stimulus to meet appointments or to prepare assignments. It is true that the authority to employ disciplinary measures can be invoked if the occasion arises, but in eight years no resort to such measures has been necessary. Yet the cutting of tutorial appointments is comparatively rare, far less than the cutting of courses. The majority of concentrators, well over 60 per cent, seldom fail to meet their engagements. The tradition of tutorial work has become firmly established...
Princeton took the aggressive from the opening whistle but, while most of the play was on Crimson ice, the University defense forced the Tigers to resort to long ineffective shots. The drives that did reach the cage were easily stopped by Bigelow, so that at first the Crimson seemed in no real danger. Early in the period it looked black for the University when Owen slid into the side boards and injured his nose, but after a rest he continued the game...
...Princeton defense. Van Gerbig recovered it, however, and went down to the Crimson ice where the Tigers maintained a prolonged attack. For most of the period the play was down on the University's defensive line, but the Tiger wings could not break through and were forced to resort to long, ineffective shots. In the middle of the period Coach Gaw met the move by shifting Van Gerbig to a similar position with the result that play was materially speeded...