Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...importance, domestic and international. Congress still concerns itself with little more than a wholehearted meddling in the choice of the next president. For the last two days, the Senate has devoted its time, almost entirely, to a discussion of the resolution introduced by Senator Lafayette which declares the third term "fraught with peril to the country," and "commends observance of this precedence by the President." The last clause is violently attacked by Senators Bingham and Gillette, strong supporters of Mr. Coolidge, as an unwarranted intimation that his services are no longer desired. And the resolution can obviously have no other...
...Term Extended, Catholics Jailed...
President Plutarco Elias Calles was elected for a four-year term expiring Dec. i, 1928. But last week there became ef- fective, after ratification by two thirds of the Mexican States, a Constitutional amendment lengthening the presidential term to six years and providing (as in Switzerland) that a president may not be re-elected for an immediately successive term. Thus Senor Calles cannot choose to run for President...
...Close-ups of these various beasts in their natural state required superhuman patience, stubborn tenacity, certain courage. Parents who take their children to the zoo will be unconscionably delinquent if they do not take them to Simba, Parents will themselves be surprised, delighted, often amazed.- Simba is the native term for lion. The native hunt for this king of beasts in which black men, defenseless save for shield and spear, commit a bloody regicide serves as a gruelling climax. The Drums of Love. Lovers long ago defeated in their love have brightened many a story with golden shadows...
...Faculty and the student body left to its own devices to pass the examinations just ahead. This hiatus is called a "reading period," and its purpose is to give the students a chance not only to catch up on the fast-flying regular work of the first term but to put in some real work in rather more than "preparing" for the tests to come. The theory is, of course, that a serious student will do much better work and get better results if he is put on his own responsibility--a theory to which we heartily subscribe...