Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reward I captured was a solid term...
...same time it was also announced that Professor Arthur Burk-hard and Professor William B. Munro will be on leave of absence for the first term of the next college year...
...complete was the deadlock among factions that all possibility of obtaining a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution in favor of a third term for President Hainisch quickly vanished. Preliminary balloting showed that the 91 Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting...
...political parties not forced me forward I would never have consented to the mention of my name for a third term. That the people of Austria desire me to continue President I do not for one moment doubt . . . during my incumbency much Austrian wit has been expended on my champion milch cow, Bella. Perhaps my countrymen should know that abroad there are few Honest Austrians so well known as Bella." With deadly insinuation angry Dr. Hainisch, then named Monsignor Ignaz Seipel as one of the very best known of Austrians, pointedly omitting to call him honest...
Last week Sculptor Brancusi won his case. In its decision the Customs Court dogmatically defined art: "It is a work of art by reason of its symmetrical shape, artistic outlines and beauty of finish." Even the most wretched of logicians knows enough not to repeat the same term in both subject and definition ("art" -"artistic outline"). But Sculptor Brancusi had his money refunded...