Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notorious instances of his instability. He decided to issue a proclamation of emancipation in July, 1863, but when Seward showed him its impropriety at the time, he admitted his error, pocketed his paper and for months later talked on both sides of the question. He at first decided to write a paper justifying the action of Captain Wilkes in seizing the Confederate Commissioners from the British steam packet Trent, but shortly joined with his Cabinet in making a humiliating apology to Great Britain...
...spells "Yes." Dislocation of the vowels spells "veto," a hard thing for a U. S. President to write. Not over 600 vetoes have been written since the U. S. Government started functioning. In that time the Congresses have passed upwards of 50,000 bills and resolutions...
Professor W. E. Hocking '01, has written "The Self; its Body and Freedom", and Professor G. H. Edgell '09 has contributed another work on Fine Arts with his "The American Architecture of Today". The questions of the Pacific have stirred Nicholas Roosevelt '14 to write "The Restless Pacific" and W. Cameron Forbes '92. "The Philippine Islands...
...made a great success, who lives at a great distance from me, but with whom my College friendship has been kept alive through correspondence and very occasional personal meetings. In this case our relations are such that I would not hesitate for one moment to write to him, nor would he have the least objection to my doing so, in the interest of the Fund, frankly stating that I missed his name and that it ought to be there...
...stockholders, prior to their annual meeting last week, the General Electric Company sent a booklet consisting simply of photographs and "Who's Who" write-ups of the company's 20 directors. And well it might, for it was as potent and interesting a Board as exists...