Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parades of delegates, carrying their standards. On the second ballot the Pennsylvania vote for W. B. Wilson of that state was contested, and the delegation was polled by the permanent chairman, and found to be for Smith by a two-vote margain. All the states voted under the unit rule...
...flower, the student council found Editor James F. Wickizer of the California Daily Bruin guilty of treason to the cause in "not conforming to the policy of constructive criticism, particularly toward the administration, which has been laid down by the council." The penalty named for further infraction of this rule was removal from office...
Militance & Independence. So early as 328 B. C. Alexander the Great marched victoriously over the chill Hindu Kush mountain passes of Afghanistan on his way to conquer in India; but it is a rule of modern history that no Occidental people can conquer and then hold the bleak land of the fanatically warlike Afghans. During the last century Great Britain repeatedly occupied the Afghan capital of Kabul and the town of Kahandar (see Map) but her troops were always withdrawn and invariably with heavy losses. True the Afghan casualties were likewise heavy, but Britons have not forgotten that during...
Courtly but honest, as the traditional Irishman, Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice of transatlantic fame ventured the opinion last week that women are temperamentally unsuited for flying. Hastening to point out that there are exceptions to every rule, he remarked that "when she brings a ship into a field, a woman pilot seems to be possessed with the idea that she is about to come down on the Sahara Desert...
Explaining further, the Chief Justice declared that if the Act had specified merely "persons" instead of "fit and qualified persons" the Supreme Court would have been obliged to rule that all human beings, including women, criminals and the insane, should be eligible for Canadian Senatorship...