Word: slating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect that the present government of Russia cannot sue in our courts; an earlier case, decided in January of this year, held that it could not be sued. Both rulings were made on the ground that the Bolshevik regime has not been recognized by the Department of Slate at Washington. If it had been recognized it could have brought suit, since, as a matter of comity, that privilege is accorded to de jure sovereigns. But it could not have been made a party defendant, because, for obvious reasons, the law does not allow one sovereign to be brought before...
...Amendment before the close of the year. Of course, its passage will shorten the terms of many Senators and Representatives when it first goes into effect. But this is a minor consideration. It will more than compensate to have the President start his term of office with a clean slate...
...gloomy outlook from any point of view. The undergraduate looks out from his window at the sky and the roofs and the slush,--all a dirty slate gray,--blows his nose and mutters: "Dab it, Cab-bridge is one town that God forgot!" But it is less trouble to go on sneezing and gargling than to go to the doctor's office at the outset. There the service costs nothing and a little properly directed attention can put an end to an embryo cold which is a personal discomfort and may be a public nuisance. With the storm-signals...
...fastest game thus far this season the University quintet defeated the Knox College five from Galesburg, Ill., by a score of 33 to 29, keeping its slate for the season clean while Knox on its eastern trip has won two and lost two games...
Last year Penn State was the logical holder of first place, since it went through a stiff schedule undefeated, although Cornell also preserved a clean slate, but did not run up against such powerful opponents...