Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor of practices yielding immediate profit, the politician who discards platform policies to enter an oil cabal may all be following the path that seems to them the irrefutable correct one Philosophers and moralists, confronted with this ethical dilemma, have had recourse to various phrasings of the Golden Rule, saying that there is a distinction between "I want to" and "I thought", that we cannot escape the fact of conscience, and in effect that we should act as we believe other should...
Sometimes the group-voting is subdivided, for lack of unit rule, or because of the State boss's weakness or through actual differences in individuals' opinions. But for the most part the chairman of each delegation just stands up when his State's turn comes and announces or reiterates, "Transylvania-umpteen votes for Hooridge." Unless spectators have rare good seats, they hear little but the candidate's name, because all the delegates go on conversing, arguing or registering enthusiasm all over the pandemoniac convention floor. If a State's vote changes materially between one ballot...
...stock exchange interspersed with glimpses of soldiers in a muddy trench. The hero of the play was really that grotesque animal, the Russian mob: this was frequently seen running about, giving its loud roar. The happy ending of The End of St. Petersburg occurred when the Soviet rule became established...
...State took a look at a man who seemed to promise a supremacy greater than that of little old Senator Simmons. Editorials appeared. Letters went around. Finally, the Senate investigators turned up, instead of a lot of Smith money, a lot of rebellious sentiment against the Simmons rule. Therefore, last week, in a whispery voice, Senator Simmons began a long, long speech which was as much the last stand of a local patriarch as it was the last stand of Tradition v. Tammany...
...greatest value to the student. No matter what career he takes up, some day the question of apportioning his time will become the vital issue and often success or failure may depend on his solution. To attempt to keep him from gaining such valuable experience by a rule that sets a uniform limit to a quality as varied as capacity for work is to give substance to the impression that colleges pass all students through a common mould and turn out only impractical theorists. The Northeastern rule is admittedly only a tentative step, but even as an experiment it sets...