Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the beginning of the next session and for some time thereafter the public can watch for a merry exchange of discourtesies between the Senate and its presiding officer. Mr. Dawes has been known to get his way pretty generally in the past, and the stubbornness of the Senate has long been the butt of the nation's humorists...
...that he should be given credit for any subject of which he has shown on the examinations a clearly satisfactory knowledge. That I may not seem prejudiced because of my connection with a school which prepares many boys for examination at that time, let me say that the summer session at Exeter was under with for the same reason that I should age in support of the September examinations, namely as a contribution to the problem of wastage in American education...
...next session of the Council of the League of Nations will take place at Geneva...
...suggested that he should winter in the south of France to escape the bitter, damp, cold English Winter, but His Majesty declared: "My place is at home." He hates to desert what Poet Kipling recently called the "H. M. S. Britain," especially at a time when Parliament is in session and there are many questions to occupy his mind; for, although the King is normally a figurehead, an expression of national unity, actually he wields considerable power in an advisory capacity, without, however, crossing the initiative of the Government. In other words, the King's direct powers are small...
...game was hard fought all the way, with Harvard behind until late in the third period. Princeton had earned a 2 to 1 lead as the first session ended. Austin tied things up after six minutes of play in the second period, but Princeton again took the lead with two goals by Scull. Harvard shortened the gap when a long shot from Austin's stick glanced off Wilkinson, and came to rest in the Tiger cage for the third Crimson score of the evening...