Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Mrs. Busch & her daughters were obliged to pay $56,363 in fines to the U. S. Treasury, which followed its rule of giving publicity to "flagrant cases" of smuggling by persons "well able to pay a just duty." The fines represented the foreign value, plus duty, plus 100%, on a diamond bracelet* and various garments. Mrs. Busch's daughters received a thoroughgoing lecture from Supervising Agent James F. McConnachie of the Treasury Department. Mrs. Loeb's acquaintance in Chicago received some $14,000 as a reward for the information...
Meanwhile the College of Ulemas was deliberating on the choice of a successor, the rule of primogeniture not being necessarily observed. There were three candidates, all sons of the late Sultan. The youngest, a boy of 14, was finally chosen: Mulai Mohammed Hamada...
...Stuart finds nothing in the Chinese revolution that is not reasonable, for he says that a passionate nationalism is struggling to throw off the selfish rule of warlords, and that the important thing is to help Young China to keep faith in itself...
...standing or of a professional school requiring three years of study for a degree; must be of good moral character and intellectual ability; and must have a practical ability to use French books, both in general subjects and in his own special field. In the absence of an absolute rule as to age, preference will in all cases be given to candidates between the ages of 20 and 30 years...
Thus far the rule applies to track athletics and cross-country running only, but a movement is now under way to extend it to rowing, rugby, lacrosse, hockey, and soccer, in which Americans have heretofore taken a prominent part...