Word: sessional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feature of the Prime Minister's latest declaration was that he was careful to utter it while both the London and New York rubber exchanges were in session. Thus he avoided a repetition of the scandal caused when he made his previous rubber announcement, last month, at an hour when the London exchange was closed but the Manhattan exchange was open. The result of the blunder was, of course, to enable U. S. brokers to make a heavy killing before the London exchange re-opened next...
...desks of Virginia's House of Delegates blossomed with a small white pamphlet one morning lately before the members began arriving for their daily session. The Speaker glanced at the copy on his own desk, read for a moment in astonishment, delivered a peremptory order. Pages hustled up and down the aisles confiscating the leaflets, which were entitled...
...session will be opened by Sir Herbert Ames who for seven years was Financial Director of the League of Nations in Geneva...
...University and Freshman baseball teams were able to take to outdoor diamonds yesterday afternoon for the first practice games of the training season. Owing to the rather soft condition of the turf, the Harvard nine, confined to the cage since last Tuesday when it went out for a brief session of batting practice, did not use the regular diamond, but limited itself to one of the class fields...
...taken the stand that they approved the Soviet proposal "in principle"; but all the Latin nations showed themselves unalterably opposed. As a result, the Commission prepared to put the. Soviet draft convention again into storage by delaying any further consideration which may be accorded it to a future session...