Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republicans streamed into Philadelphia this week with a sense of determination and high purpose. The scent of victory was in the air. For the 24th National Republican Convention would do more than pick its candidate for the 1948 campaign. After 16 years of Democratic rule, Republicans were almost certainly choosing the next President of the United States...
Britons last week heard echoes of slogans which had been dormant for decades: "The House of Lords must be mended or ended," and "Who shall rule, the Peers or the People...
Delegates & Bosses. By last week the preliminaries for this year's conventions were almost over. The National Committees had picked the place and the date (Republicans, who traditionally meet first, on June 21; Democrats on July 12), had apportioned convention delegates among the states. The rule of thumb: each state sends two delegates for each Representative and each Senator in Congress.† Republicans give a bonus of three delegates to those states which voted Republican in 1944 or 1946; Democrats give a bonus of four. The District of Columbia, territories and possessions get two to six delegates each. Total...
...along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life, and a short one, at your disposal. Only in leisure can you savor...
...beginning of the 19th Century, Artillery Armes (that is the name the author has wished on him) gets mixed up in Florida's trouble under Spanish rule. Golden-haired Artillery works as a U.S. secret agent, but he is pretty confused about which side he is on. The reader will share his confusion. But nothing much is left unexplained about Artillery's love life: he oscillates between fair, proud Beth (daughter of a wealthy merchant) and dark, passionate Dauna (a slave girl). In the big emotional climax, after buying Dauna in a slave mart, Artillery whips...