Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hungry Manhattan, the 10% rule of thumb was as dead as the nickel fare. Three trade associations threw some light on the going rates: 15% on restaurant checks; 20% to 25% on cab fares; 25? for bellhops (two bags). A shine was 15?-plus...
Three or four firecrackers from 11:45 until 12:30 every night have been the rule all fall say the police. So far the battlefield has centered around Adams, Lowell, and Leverett Houses...
...careful inspection of athletic records will reveal that a surprising percentage of games are won mainly because of penalties, especially in soccer, hockey, and football. If we are ever to have contests which are free from the fallacies of the rule books, the various committees must overhaul their systems of rulemaking and revision. As it is now, the best team does not always win. It is occasionally the team which gets a lucky break from the almighty regulations. Robert F. Lawson...
...average pollee sounded not unlike the Pharisee who went into the temple to pray.* To the question-"If you yourself followed [Christ's rule of love] ALL THE WAY, what would you do differently-that is, how would it change your life?"-half answered that they would not change their present lives at all. Nearly two-thirds (62%) admitted that on thinking over the past 24 hours they could recall no time when they might have acted differently if they were explicitly following Christ's injunction: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." At the same time...
Shaw's solution is the reform of the language and the creation of a new alphabet "with 24 new consonants and 18 new vowels" and based on the rule of "One Sound One Letter." The layman, he warns, will resist change to the death; after having gone to the trouble of learning to spell cough and tough, he will not agree to relearn them even...