Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of the track team they seem to have the habit of winning so fully ingrained that it just can't be broken. The lopside win of 77 1/2 to 57 1/2 at Dartmouth last Saturday was no exception to the three year rule in all meets except the I.C.4A...
...subject of taxing every corporation's undistributed income under a blanket rule, Mr. May referred to the phantasmagoria of special terms and exceptions which the House Ways & Means Committee had produced in its efforts to correct specific injustices, observed: "I do not think it is possible to anticipate all the serious injustices. . . . Once you begin to make exceptions there is no logical place at which you can stop...
...work relief; 2) set up non-partisan local boards to administer relief; 3) fine and imprison any WPA official attempting to influence votes in a national election. As swiftly approved were Democratic amendments to: 1) bar aliens illegally resident in the U. S. from relief; 2) end the rule that WPA jobs may be had only by those on relief rolls since last November...
According to the inexplicable "Rule of 87'' which seems to determine the ratio between single and multiple human births, approximately one pair of twins occurs to every 87 singles; one set of triplets to about 7,569 (87 squared) singles. The chance which brought quadruplets to the Raspers was thus one in 658,503 (87 cubed). The Dionne quintuplets, who last week were awaiting a visit from the Keys quadruplets of Hollis, Okla. (see p. 38), are, according to this rule, unique among 57,000,000 humans...
...thesis: Alderman Mrs. Beddows, the shrewd and courageous old lady, triumphant over an unhappy marriage; Lydia Holly, the intelligent and unfortunate daughter of an old rogue whose impecunious family lives in a derelict railway car; Miss Sigglesthwaite, learned science mistress of the high school, who is totally incompetent to rule her incorrigible pupils: Snaith, the wealthy alderman, whose reforms are intellectual rather than humanitarian; Midge Carne, the neurotic, unhappy adolescent granddaughter of Lord Sedgmire. One cannot fail to enjoy the star-crossed romance of Sarah Burton, new head mistress of the high school, and Councillor Robert Carne, a sporting former...