Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiralty announced that the inflexible rule forbidding the presence of a female on a British ship of war is to be relaxed when T. R. H. the Duke and Duchess of York set out on the Renown in January to dedicate the new Australian capital Canberra (TIME, Aug. 23). With the Royal Duchess will travel two ladies in waiting: Lady Cavan and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour. Upon their heads Marine Jonah Uden will practice his art as the first naval coiffeur...
...Like many another state, New York has a rule requiring four-year courses of instruction at chartered colleges. With the rising popularity and evident success of "junior colleges," especially in the West, for post-high-school-and-pre-university study, these rules are vanishing...
...Since the world's important observatories are situated neither on the equafor nor at the poles, let us see what the actual conditions for observation really are. It is a familiar rule, and easy to remember that the attitude of the celestial pole above the horizon is equal to the latitude of the place; for example, at the equator they are both equal to zero, and at the pole to 90 degrees, as we have seen. We may take Cambridge as an example of a typical Northern Observatory. Its latitude is North 42 degrees, but for simplicity let us call...
...department to make this demand when no similar requirement for extensive knowledge of both Greek and Latin was laid down. These two languages, even to the layman, are obviously of much greater importance in the study and appreciation of English literature than is Anglo-Saxon. The new rule in effect makes Anglo-Saxon voluntary, and so removes the evil...
...repaid with a low rate of interest by the recipient when he is in a position to cancel the obligation. And the Foundation presumes that such a condition would not be possible until the student had been many years out of college. The only exceptions to the rule of repayment would be "those who plan to use their education for public service...