Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Bartlette Willis, who used to grease the inside of his throat with vaseline before making a campaign speech, was re-elected to the seat for a term expiring in 1933. He died in 1928. Appointed was Cyrus Locher. Ohio voters rejected him in 1928. He, too, is now dead. Mr. Locher's conqueror at the polls was Theodore Elijah Burton, buried last fortnight (TIME, Nov. 4). Last week Governor Myers Cooper appointed Roscoe Conkling McCulloch to the seat. Next year Ohio voters will again have to select a man to finish out the term to which they originally...
...have, after all, been fairly patient in bearing with feminine supremacy, and it does seem to be a little too much of a gloating attitude to call this development equality. At all events, it is to be hoped that these young ladies have appreciated the full significance of that term, duty dance...
...assumes a distinctly calamitous aspect when one takes a brief glimpse at the perennial bills which now decorate Harvard desks throughout the college. What with the unfortunate outcome of the Michigan game and the past unpleasantness in Wall Street, the financial atmosphere of Cambridge has become distinctly heavy. A term bill is bad enough, the anticipated outlay for the Yale week-end will be worse, and for those who sport license plates of dashing colors the thought of registration and insurance is the last straw. That such an accumulation of gargantuan expenses should be presented at one fell swoop...
...between as are liberals in general, came as a result of his further explanation of the much-talked-of statements, regarding Harvard students as "snobs," which he made last spring before the graduating class of M. I. T., Denying the accusations of many that he had meant the term "snob" in a light unfavorable to Harvard, he explained that the term was one of the highest praise...
...their congressmen are concerned. As a remedy, I suggest that we can amend our constitution to provide that the candidate for the presidency who receives the second highest number of votes should be entitled to a seat in the United States Senate as a senator-at-large during the term of his successful opponent. ... He would naturally become the leader of the minority party and a good, forceful, vigorous minority is the people's own check on the possible tyranny of a majority...