Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President has declined to interfere or express any opinion on the details of rates . . . but he pointed out that the wide differences of opinion and the length of the discussions in the Senate were themselves ample demonstration of the desirability of a real flexible clause in order that injustice in rates could be promptly corrected. . . . "He urged the Republican leaders to get together and see if they could not . . . thus send the bill to conference with the House within the next two weeks...
...Crimson uniform, and only three Elis finished within the first ten. The trio of Wesley, F. D. Murphy '33, and Captain Arthur Foote '33; who have been consistent leaders through all the races this season, took the first three places within half a minute of each other, in the order named. They were closely followed by N. P. Dodge '33; J. T. Hughes '33, and J. S. Hayes...
...spite of certain good qualities in his style and his accurate portrayal of a social order, Mr. Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...
...when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. The Great American Desert was at that time a sizable obstacle in the way of transportation from the west to the east. Davis had, as Senator from Mississippi, conceived of the idea of inaugurating a camel route across the desert in order to relieve the situation, and when he became Secretary of War he secured an appropriation of $30,000 from Congress to carry out his scheme...
Purposely we have delayed long in making comment upon the order of a Harvard professor that there be no coughing in his classroom...