Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt is by no means an exception to the rule that a U. S. President, like plain citizens, needs an occasional friendly cheer to lift and reassure his spirits. No more is he an exception to the rule that a President also needs a friend with the gumption to remind him that he cannot always be right, offer sympathetic but searching criticism of his plans and purposes, occasionally say "no" to his bright inspirations. More impulsive than most, Franklin Roosevelt had such a salutary intimate in the late Louis McHenry Howe. Since that devoted little secretary took...
Fuad's father was Ismail the Magnificent, a foolish spendthrift who dissipated himself out of the khediveship, under Turkish rule. When Ismail's oldest living son died in 1917 as sultan, his son in turn declared that since he had the best wife and the best horse in the world, he did not want to succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great...
...write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...
...Total Points Rule...
...rules committee further more explicitly stated that there was no rule in the guide which states that the aggregate total points should decide. The rule covering the matter reads as follow: "At the end of the bout the judge shall write the name of the winner on his tabulation card. If both agree, the decision is final. If they do not agree, the referee casts the deciding vote...