Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-year men worked for a little over an hour yesterday in a session which was devoted chiefly to fundamentals...
...dummy scrimmage which followed the contact work occupied the greater part of the afternoon session. Since the Harlow system is largely dependent on a smooth and fast functioning attack, emphasis was laid on snap and deception...
...beginning to rain outside. The ministers hurried from the House to Downing Street to another midnight session, through a drenched blackout lit by flashes of lightning...
Saturday's preholiday two-hour trading session showed clearly that U. S. investors were eager to cut themselves into war profits. War stocks continued to zoom and the Dow-Jones industrial average hit 137.97, helped by war babies, unhurt by nonwar stocks, which generally stood still or picked up small gains. Between 10 o'clock and noon 1,791,250 shares changed hands...
...session was historic (see p. 20). From 2:45 p.m. when the clerk placed on the table the great mace, signifying that Parliament was in session, to 10:30 p.m. when members left the building, found crowds singing Rule Britannia outside, it was stamped with the quality of grave decision that has marked the great crises of Parliament. Mr. Churchill did not speak. When the vote came he walked out the door on the Government side of the House, thereby signifying his assent to the granting of war powers to the Government. Implicit in Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech...