Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their term of service will fall in the second half-year, during which time Professor Mercier and Professor Stetson will lecture at a number of educational institutions...
...year is 1916 and Li, now in his second term as vice president of the Chinese Republic, takes the last hurdle to power, when death comes to President Yuan Shinkai...
...City Council. Its mayor then vetoed the ordinance. But last week the City Council overrode the veto, six votes to three. Effective in the repassage was Novelist-Councilman Meredith Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, Otherwise Phyllis, etc., etc.), now serving his first term. Mr. Nicholson reported that he had received a telegram from Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour. Mr. Nicholson retorted that he had just been in Manhattan, which seemed to be doing well on Daylight Saving...
Secondly, If you please, don't term our societies "frats." It isn't being done, besides "Fraternities" sounds much better...
...received his A. B. degree after four years of academic work. He completed a course at the Law School two years later. After a distinguished legal career he was appointed chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and the next year went to the Supreme Court bench. His term will expire...