Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more cosmopolitan body. The fact that very few public schools even moderately distant from the Atlantic sea-board prepare directly for the College Board examinations has frequently discriminated against the entrance of students from these institutions into Eastern universities; and his device of Princeton's like the "first seventh" rule at Harvard, is a step towards giving them an equal chance with the graduates of more experienced Eastern schools...
...time", is only seldom relieved by the equally hackneyed three-four of the waltz. But from this very sameness is inculcated a habit from which the plastic age finds it hard to depart Parties become not only more frequent but more lengthy and the rigid two o'clock closing rule of three years ago has been honored during the present season by breaches of from one to three hours...
When the solitary "People" had replied with an address of eulogy and devotion, the immediate ceremony was at an end -except that three mighty shouts of "Banzai!" "May you rule forever !"† went up, not only from the assembled company in Kioto but from Japanese through out the world. This was possible because the original Kioto shout was timed to the second of 3 p. m., a momentous second announced throughout the world months previously...
...first glance Britannia appeared in escapably destined to rule in potency. But canny folk noted that the second number of Britannia appeared with only 13 paid-for pages and with the front and back in side covers unsold...
Dying at 72, Artist Stuart's brushwork remained unimpaired, though he is said to have been forced to ask a friend (George Brimmer) to sign a canvas for him, his hand being too shaky. As a rule he neither signed nor completed portraits. His daughter Jane is said to have completed many of them for him, his interest ending when he had done the face...