Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal reads, "The undersigned men hereby formally petition the repeal of the unreasonable Lowell House summer rule that coats be worn in the dining hall on these sweltering summer days." The words "unreasonable Lowell" have been crossed out in pencil...
...British friend lent him Count Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You. The Russian Christian's doctrine of nonviolent resistance to unjust rule gripped the Hindu lawyer's mind. "Young birds," wrote Tolstoy, ". . . know very well when there is no longer room for them in the eggs. ... A man who has outgrown the State can no more be coerced into submission to its laws than can the fledgling be made to re-enter its shell...
Knight's solunar theory is a "scientific adaptation" of an old fisherman's rule-of-thumb known as "moon up, moon down." It is also an application to inland waters of the saltwater theory that the feeding habits of fish are affected by the tides. (Fish, says Knight, like two square meals and two snacks a day.) The best solunar times vary with the longitude as well as the day, so Knight compiles different weekly tables for each of the newspapers. Each calculation involves the interplay of two forces-the sun's and the moon...
...general strike in the crucial industrial area of Bilbao, when some 35,000 men stayed home in protest against the provincial governor's punishment of workers who had observed May Day. But there is no power in Spain today that can seriously threaten Franco's rule...
Thirty years ago a bluff Irish newshawk, covering the Home Rule issue and Dublin riots for an Irish paper, got himself reprimanded by both the British and the Irish patriots in the same week. He took it as a compliment to his fairness. Last week, still an impartial reporter, white-haired Tom O'Donoghue, now 61, became boss of Britain's most impartial daily, Hansard's official record of Parliamentary Debates...