Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press may breed content or contempt. At times your special brand seems to approach the latter...
That week barely a beginning was made in selecting a jury. A special venire of 150 was called; only 65 appeared; 37 asked to be excused; 14 were excused for cause; and Mr. Darrow, carefully eyeing the small remainder, peremptorily challenged two of them...
...during the War. And though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying out a series of confidential missions vital to the Allies...
...Customs Conference proceeded with its sessions in the magnificent Winter Palace of the old Forbidden City. And the delegates, secretaries, assistants, representing the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Japan and China*- with those of Norway, Sweden and Denmark participating by special adherence-swelled the assembly to well over 500 persons, of whom more than half were Chinese, all but one Occidentally clad...
Dean Seashore of Iowa addressed the first session on the undesirability of premature assistant instructorship appointments. When the graduate student is appointed while pursuing his graduate studies, "he loses the attitude of a student toward his superiors and tries to get special privileges as a member of the staff...