Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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3) It is not true that unrestricted debate tends to reduce the number of bills enacted. In the last eight congresses, chiefly because of filibusters, seven extra sessions have been held, which resulted in the passage of 386 bills and 98 public resolutions. Likewise, in the last five Congresses, the...
The Cambridge rotorists managed, with a 12-mile breeze, to proceed at 3 knots an hour. They estimated that whereas a 10 horsepower engine would have been needed to drive their craft 6 miles an hour by propeller, the rotor and a 15-mile wind would take them 7 miles...
Rubber brokers, however, are skeptical of the benefits to be derived from acquiring rubber plantations in the Dutch possessions. They point out that, whereas the U. S. will consume over 300,000 tons of crude rubber this year, the Dutch output is not over 120,000 tons. Moreover, this Dutch...
The electrical conductivity of solutions is one of their most important properties from a practical and theoretical point of view. Some solutions, such as sugar solutions, are non-conductants of electricity, whereas most salt solutions conduct well and acid solutions the best of all and the conductivity is directly related...
The half-mile was won last year by Watters, who also captured the 1924 Intercollegiate title. Last week this runner came in fourth, covering the distance in 1 minute 55 3-10 esconds, but still nearly two seconds behind the winner, Marsters of Georgetown. Both Haggerty and Barker can run...