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...representative' more devoid of meaning. The sorry state of affairs on Beacon Hill is attributable to the almost monarchial power of Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and Speaker of the House Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), who until now have dispensed patronage and dictated legislation to sub-servient rank-and-file representatives and senators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go Govoni | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers and the atheist press in the U.S.S.R." (i.e., Pravda and Izvestia). The important point : although the Russian Orthodox Church often seems totally sub servient to the government, it now feels strong enough to excommunicate priests simply for preaching Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Excommunication in Moscow | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...nose will further diminish and sink (just as the animal snout, ' man's line of descent, has been doing for aeons of time) and finally that man's two eyes will again become one-just one large, central, cyclopean eye. It is likely that the merely servient (left) eye will shrink away (as the pineal eye has already done) so that the right eye will become the cyclopean. Certain it is that the left eye, even today, is being used less and less continually. Man's binocular and stereoscopic visions are being destroyed-the price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Face of the Future | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...cease to be only symbolical of student cooperation and will be in reality a vital factor in the daily life of the college. The instigators of the project at Princeton appear to be firmly convinced that student government has won its spurs by a period of restrained and sub-servient respect and that it is now prepared to partake in active guidance. If their belief is representative of their university its accuracy and justice will find ample room for demonstration on the acceptance of the Constitution which embodies their aims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED | 6/2/1927 | See Source »

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