Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This change has been made because this year's strict application of the regular rule, according to which the Christmas recess lasts from December 23 to January 2, both inclusive, would have caused the vacation to run from a Monday afternoon to a Saturday morning. The regular rule, however, will be followed next year and hereafter as usual...
Contrary to the usual rule, the race was rowed upstream instead of down, as the coaches considered it impossible for the crews to row into the gale that was blowing. At 5 o'clock, when the race started, it was almost entirely dark, and the crews could scarcely be distinguished...
...metropolis points the way. In such a fashion should every city, town and village drive home to its representatives the idea that the majority must rule. The objection of many who decry chronological isolation is answered by those communities and industrial organizations which had daylight saving ordinances of their own in pre-war times and suffered not at all from the experience. Let us stand solidly behind Boston and Massachusetts in any action insuring for us those innumerable benefits which we have enjoyed during the past two summers...
...tickets to each applicant, and no application will be accepted unless one of the seats is for the personal occupancy of the applicant. The number of tickets to each applicant for the other games will not be limited either as to number or "personal use," but, as a general rule, applications for personal occupancy will be preferred in the allotment...
Nearly every undesirable situation has its brighter aspects, and the Boston police strike has been no exception to this rule. If it has accomplished nothing else, it has brought to light men like Governor Coolidge. Throughout the whole unpleasant affair he has shown himself worthy of the greatest respect. His initiative, courage, and foresight saved his capitol, and possibly his state, from anarchy. The nation needs more public men who maintain in dealing with police strikers, that "there is no middle ground...