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Word: rule (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that today's statement of the modification of the language requirements affects only the man well enough equipped in school to meet the University's reading examinations. Although the new rule takes no serious burden from anyone's shoulders, it does show the decided position of the faculty in encouraging the completion of elementary work in school. Given time, this policy will reap its reward in Freshmen better able to seize the advantages of college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATURE MIND | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

...mystery man he had come in. The appointments of Messrs. Jahncke and Hurley to the sub-Cabinet were designed to relieve the South's disappointment at not being represented in the Cabinet. Mr. Jahncke, in particular, was a "lily white" appointment, as he had striven manfully against the rule of Walter Cohen, dictator of Louisiana's Old Black Guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...will make no exceptions,'' ran the General's order to the superintendents, "in enforcing the inflexible rule that girls wearing short skirts or silk stockings or using either lipstick or powder are not allowed to enter any public school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: General v. Girls | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...from the study of law in books and documents to the examination of individual offenses against society indicates a new outlook in the legal profession. Today the lawbreaker is dealt with under a hard and fast rule which was made to consider the mass and not the individual. With the present code there is little or no room for the services which a psychiatrist, physician, or social worker might render, not in punishing the crime, but in getting at the cause of the un-social conduct in the individual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MAN'S A MAN | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

...Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill amended. Perhaps as much as two months will be spent in Senate wrangling over the measure. Congress may not be able to adjourn before the end of summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extra Agenda | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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