Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conservatives nominated by the two old parties. The latter course would be pioneering without the prospects of immediate result. Lewis does not object to pioneering, but he does not see labor's pressing problems permitting a long span of spade work and defeats as a preliminary to labor rule in the distant future. Unlike the A. F. of L. leaders, who look upon the possibility of independent political action by labor as akin to Communism, Lewis does not bar the possible formation of a new party in which labor will dominate or be an important partner...
...half days, the London-Australia from eleven days to nine. This means that any Sunday or Thursday during the year a traveler may climb into an Empire flying boat at Southampton, swish a mile over its land locked harbor, take off for the outposts of British rule. If the traveler, raincoated against England's chilly mist, has his luggage marked "Australia," he will slip between the Alps in the afternoon, dine in Rome, sleep that night in dusty Athens. Next day he will cross the eastern Mediterranean, sweep over Mesopotamia, go to bed in Basra, Irak. Third and fourth...
...Leuthold noticed that Mrs. Dorothy Clark, one of the party's two women, and Roy Varney, a veteran climber from Oregon City, were lagging, staggering. Varney said he could hardly see. Two Mazamas, themselves weak, were assigned to support each of them. Then Leader Leuthold broke a climbing rule-that an expedition's leader, like a sea captain, must follow all others out of trouble. He donned skis, tumbled, slid, rolled down to Timberline to fetch the snow tractor. At the lodge he found that the driver was miles away, the key lost...
...first two years of Nazi rule, enrollment in German universities dropped from...
...astronomical probability figures given by ESP advocates, in order to rule out chance, do not prove that ESP exists. The science of probability is extremely controversial; moreover, science does not use probability to prove the existence of something which is otherwise undemonstrated...