Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union Franchise for Woman Suffrage is piqued because Messieurs les Senateurs et Deputés have ignored the suffrage question. These active ladies have decided to send all of the recalcitrant males in le Parlement a letter, pointing out that Belgian women vote, that Primo de Rivera has decreed the vote for the senoritas of Castille and Aragon, and that Benito Mussolini has promised that the donnas of Italy may vote sometime soon...
People knew better in the seventeenth century. The testimony of Titus Oates, religious turncoat, political renegade, all-but felon and a confirmed liar was accepted by the government of England as sufficient to send scores of persons to execution and imprisonment. He was a witness worth having. One on Whom legislatures could rely. And besides, how much more conducive to unbiased statements were the howling streets of London and the death-fires of Peopes in effigy than the stultified academic stillness of Langdell Hall...
...April 12 a special experiment will take place, in which a group of persons in France will endeavor to send to this country an abstract idea by thought transference...
...Fosdick said that while he did not believe in compulsory religion, he believed that at Harvard there should at least be one general assembly each day, preferably in chapel. He is a graduate of Mercer University, Georgia, and hopes to send each of his four sons there to study. As an educator, and as a clergyman he has been prominently identified with students for the past twenty-five years. He believes that the reason young men do not attend church regularly is because religion has become too formal...
...With Japan the question is not one of expediency-of whether Japan be allowed to send a few hundreds more of her emigrants to this country or not- but one of principle, of whether her self-respect as a nation should be given proper and friendly consideration...