Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more venerable professors of Liverpool University last week grunted wrathfully. They were advised by their Chancellor, his Lordship the Earl of Derby, that those among them who had achieved the age of 65 would straightway be requested to retire. The old gentlemen were unanimous in protesting that, if the rule were to stand, pensions more adequate than the present ones should be arranged...
...expected that they will probably not accept social engagements away from White Court, following their rule so long established and uniformly maintained at the White House...
...Probability is the rule of life-especially under the skin. Never make a positive diagnosis...
...possible to conduct concealed filibusters, where every speaker speaks directly to the issue, which it is almost impossible to break up by rule. Such a filibuster was conducted in the last session of the 65th Congress in 1918-19 in order to prevent the passage of revenue bills by the Democrats until the new Republican Congress should come into office "No one could have said that the ensuing debate was not legitimate. It transcended no rule of relevancy, and it proceeded to the very eve of adjournment. Then, early in the evening of March third, the filibuster emerged from...
Roman Catholic prelates often aver that no Cardinal desires to be Pope. If, as the world insists, Merry del Val was an exception to this rule, it is also probable that he now says the rule was wise. For surely the after-middle-years would have been robbed of all felicity had Merry del Val labored, as Pope, to be as great as he has been Cardinal...