Word: ruled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHEREAS, in the current status of national and international affairs it is desirable that the attention of the people of the United States be focused upon the rule of law and its tremendous importance and value to our nation and to the world...
Development. A good man with a slide rule, and a born boss, he advanced to superintendent at Llewellyn, stayed with the company after a merger formed the Consolidated Steel Corp. in 1929, was executive vice president and director before his 32nd birthday. In 1937 he quit his job to set out on his own. First step: he helped organize the Los Angeles engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone Corp., which he headed. Second step: he married Idaho-born Rosemary Cooper. During World War II, Bechtel-McCone operated an Army Air Forces modification center...
...best years' salary. The election showed a hardening of opposition to this expensive outlay. Agrarians and Conservatives, who are most opposed to the idea, picked up at least 14 seats, fj In Belgium the country was almost evenly divided too, but the Socialist-Liberal coalition that has ruled Belgium through uneventful prosperity for four years was put out of office. The Social Christians (largely Roman Catholics) captured a majority of the Senate but fell short in the House, and may not be able to put together a majority, though King Baudouin asked Social Christian August De Schryver...
...College rules required that "the Scholars shall never use their Mother-toungue except that in publike Exercises or oratory or such like, they bee called to make them in English." This rule created some communication difficulties, for the students often spoke a doggerel form of pig-Latin that was understandable only to themselves...
...conducted a poll in conjunction with fourteen other colleges; results showed that out of 24,000 votes, 15,000 of American college youth were willing to lose their reputation for virtue in order to support repeal or modification of the liquor laws. Pennsylvania, however, was the exception to the rule, and the Quakers registered a majority dry vote. Princeton, naturally enough, had the wettest vote. Over 79 per cent of the Tigers admitted that they drank...