Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essence the appeal of the Governor is such as should be made by every enlightened chief executive from time to time. And a rule which the sister state of Cinnecticut plasters on the windshields of every car might be taken as the best note for the appeal: "Drive so that your car is always under control...
...Government in exploration and restoration of Chichén-Itzà, greatest Maya city in Yucatan, U. S. archeologists picked up in Mexico City an extraordinary character. Then 28, Artist Jean Chariot was in Mexico partly because his French family had had relatives there even before Maximilian tried to rule Mexico, partly because post-War Paris and Dada were not for him. A solemn-faced gamin, he went through 1917 and 1918 as a lieutenant in the artillery, won the welterweight championship of the French Army. In 1921 he landed in Mexico and went straight to work with the famed...
...Chinatown did a thriving business shining shoes, promising to turn over their nickels to the China war relief fund, their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided by the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party...
...Board of Governors of the U. S. Polo Association, the men who rule U. S. polo, last week gathered in a smoke-filled room in Manhattan for a solemn annual task. Gravely they passed about typewritten sheets of paper, studied them, made penciled notations. Then the names of ranking U. S. polo players were called off, their past and present handicaps noted, their recommended handicaps voted upon...
...sound trouncing from Yale on the gridiron. Football here was at a low ebb, both with regard to achievement and morale. Then, if never before, voices from all sides insisted that with the new commercialization in college competition Harvard could not win unless some modification of the "student first" rule took effect. Perhaps not proselytism in all the materialism of the term, but some arrangement to make it easier for stars to come here. On November 26 the Crimson joined others in expressing this view...