Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precept and example, "Senator" Young has long since built up within the White House walls a model political organization of which he is the model boss. The White House Correspondents' Association, set up to control the personnel of press conferences, has become under the Boss's rule a powerful dining-out group, whose banquets are often louder & funnier than the Gridiron Club...
...marry B. E. F. soldiers, they must go home, under an Army rule prohibiting wives in the military areas of France...
...heat thus turned on him, last week St. Gandhi turned it on the British. His Working Committee of Congress threatened nationwide civil disobedience if Britain did not grant home rule instanter...
...shrewd, ambitious mother kept telling Otto that he would one day be Emperor. Fanatically religious, she went to church five times a day, and entrusted Otto's education to three Benedictine monks. Because he might one day rule over many lands, she made him learn many tongues: Hungarian, German, French, English, Spanish, Basque, Croatian, Czech, and "300 words of Finnish." When Otto was ready for a university, his whole family moved to Belgium so he could attend Louvain. Otto learned to live with the austerity of his great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef...
...answer is No. Students, admittedly, didn't know all the facts and figures. Nor did most of them want to. All they knew was that ten brilliant men had been pinched off between the slide-rule and the axe, and would leave great gaps that could never he filled by renumbering courses. Take the English Department, for example. Four assistant professors were given terminating appointments last spring. All are here now Presumably two will lock up their brief-cases for the last time this spring, two more in June, 1941. This year these men are giving eight half-course...