Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Electrical Power Regulation. "The Federal Power Commission is now composed of three Cabinet officers. . . . I recommend that authority be given for the appointment of full-time commissioners to replace them. . . . The authority of the commission should be extended to certain phases of power regulation. About 90% of all power generation...
In Vienna a shrewd, cantankerous old gentleman died at the age of 93. Throughout Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, stiff-backed, military men grew grave at the news, then flooded the press of Central Europe last week with waves of reminiscence. For General Anton von Galgotzy, of the Imperial Army of...
The curriculum was set up with two courses, a stiff educational one to prepare "career girls" for the Bryn Mawr examinations, a less strenuous one in letters and the arts for misses planning to take their places in Society. But each & every girl must pass an examination to get into...
Since Barrie no longer writes, no one has succeeded like Mr. Milne in giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve...
The provision of a headquarters for foreign men and their friends which will be always at their disposal is calculated to supply the need of such men for a common meeting ground for social contacts. Its permanent and informal character will allow an easier interchange than is at present possible...