Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well might Playwright O'Neill have felt surprised at receiving this generous share of the dead Swedish dynamite inventor's money, along with the world's most coveted literary honor. As a rule the Swedish Academy scrupulously attempts to see that no one nation or branch of literature gets more than its share of Nobel Prizes. The literary prize was not awarded last year. Since 1930, therefore, it has been given just five times, twice to U. S. citizens (Sinclair Lewis, 1930; Eugene O'Neill, 1936), thrice to dramatists (John Galsworthy, 1932; Luigi Pirandello, 1934; Eugene...
...Crimson poll on the question of the present parietal rule requiring a "carbon copy" of all lady guests has proved two facts conclusively. The first is that feeling was strong enough to bring out a record vote. Where the shot hits; there the feathers fly. The second fact is that the present rule is definitely undesirable and inconvenient...
Breaking all previous CRIMSON poll records House voters turned down the present Two-Women rule by the over-whelming majority of 1226 to 49. Voters who found the rule inconvenient outnumbered those who did not by almost as great a landslide...
...Leverett House went the honor of piling up the largest landslide against the Two-Women rule. The Rabbits reacted from their "monasticism" of a few years ago and voted 157 to 1 for social freedom. The single vote in favor of the rule was obviously satiric, since the balloter stated on the back that he thought the law "just keen" and that it kept boys from the "awfulest trouble...
Decrying the rule as "reminiscent of the late Teacher's Oath Bill Fascism," one Bellboy went on to say, "Most of the suites have more than one room, and you will find that two determined couples are just as effective...