Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief Executive spent an active week acquainting himself with the devices and desires of the Cabinet, the legislators and many minor executives. He re-examined his decision against a special session of Congress (see THE CONGRESS). He heard Senator Borah of Idaho on the subject of the onion tariff and Representative Dan A. Sutherland of Alaska on the subject of salmon being disturbed by earthquakes. General John H. Russell, High Commissioner to Haiti, paid respects before returning to his post. Governor General M. L. Walker of the Panama Canal Zone conferred for a half-hour. They were...
...versions were bawdy). In general, any "complete version" recites the beauty and whimsicality of the heroine, her generous disposition towards regiments and regiments of the military. No wedding is recorded, yet suddenly, almost miraculously, she brings forth a son called "the little Marine." His exploits are then made the subject of exhaustive saga, beside which the Rabelaisian Odysseys of Gargantua and Pantagruel dwindle to commonplace proportions...
...announcement which preceeds the present issue, "it will attempt to present not the aspect of a single department of group of departments in the University but the entire scene of undergraduate and graduate activity. Its pages will be open to creative work in any field and on any subject, provided that work is of a sufficient nontechnical nature to assure a general Harvard interest... The Hound and Horn, will supply a fresh medium of creative expression to all members of the University who desire it. The editors hope that contributions from all the graduate schools will be in good proportion...
...John Brown, after murdering five exponents of Negro slavery. shut himself up in a garrison at Osawatomie and was later taken prisoner, tried found guilty, executed, made the subject of a song. In 1859 at Osawatomie, famed Horace Greeley addressed the convention which was beginning to organize the Republican Party in Kansas. In 1910 at Osawatomie, Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting wild animals in Africa, made a speech on "New Nationalism," which loudly thumped the doings of his former proteg; William Howard Taft, and led to the forming in 1912 of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party...
Tariff Law. A staggering shock jarred the nerves of U. S. businessmen in Paris: the French government published the full text of its new general tariff law, wherein it was found that $80,000,000 worth of goods sold by the U. S. in France was subject to a maximum duty ranging from 100% to 13% higher than formerly...