Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen, my invariable rule is to lower the grade of any man whom I interview about his examination." The professor beamed benevolently. "My assist ants in the course, I find, are less, shall we say, ha ha, harsh. So that if anyone cares to talk with them in the lower corridor of Sever between 5.30 and 6.45 next Saturday afternoon, he will find them not only cordial but disinterested...
Coach H. L. Cowles concedes his team only an outside chance to take the national team crown. A new ruling of the National Squash Racquets Association provides that at least one member of each team must play in the singles, and that this man may not represent his team in the team matches. This rule, depriving the University aggregation of its captain, may seriously damage its chances in the team tournament...
...Weber said, however, that Bostonians were somewhat of an exception to this rule, and that he felt them to be more intellectually inclined towards music than other Americans...
...Such progress is now held virtually at a standstill by the War Dragon. With each successive year since the fall of the Empire, China has weltered ever deeper in the morass of civil war. To-day three principal "War Lords" (see below) and their countless satellite "Generals" claim to rule China, but are merely raping her resources for themselves...
...filling the public press and beginning to bore the populace, is a new squabble between Postmaster John J. Kiely and a protest organization which calls itself in the best athletic manner the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. The League wants to put stamps bearing the inscription. "Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua" on the backs of envelopes. The Postmaster has decided, however, that the Marines can not be classed in the same boat with the "White Death", especially out of the Christmas season. He has forbidden the stamps passage in the mall under the section of the U. S. Penal...