Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Court can over-rule the Senate. Congress, President, and practically any one else. It is supreme...
From Samarkand the Golden, once capital of half the conquered world, and seat of Tamburlaine news came last week of things deep stirring in the heart of Asia. Bleak Soviets rule today, instead of Tamburlaine, but even so the men of Samarkand still sip iced honey as of old, still deal in that exquisite lambskin, caracul, worth sometimes ?500 ($2430) a hide and still transship eight hundred million pounds of Chinese tea each year to Russia. The men of Samarkand were occupied last week in quite the good old way. The women were causing trouble...
...world is much better off under the control of the wisdom of the average man than under the rule of that type of Intellectual to whom originality is more meritorious than wisdom. The average man in this country has no sympathy for a criminal and when serving on a jury will not hesitate to convict the fourth time with the resulting life penalty provided the evidence is clear. Crime can be suppressed when it is necessary and the measure is one of the best passed in recent years for the limitation of robbery. Although the average man is quiet...
...overhand pass which is used in American football it proved to be a demoralizing innovation. In this country such an innovation in one of our popular sports, though it might endanger the future of the game, could have been coped with only by the introduction of a new rule. But not so in England. The overhead pass was accepted generally as unsportsmanlike and not in keeping with the game, thus automatically disappearing...
...changes in the football rules, made a month ago, were so radical this winter that the development of football along the new lines marked out for it will be watched with more than usual interest. Particularly interesting will be the opening up of the game by the lateral passing rule, from which Harvard is expected to draw full benefit through the coaching of Frank Shaughnessy, well: known Rugby football coach at McGill University...