Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...govern ments in default on World War I debts). In official circles, outright repeal of the Johnson Act or a scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry, one centre of the British aircraft industry, started speculation as to whether the President would change his "rule-of-thumb" by which England was to get 50% of U. S. airplane production, and give her a larger share...
...peons were happy under the sway of a good alcande, but completely miserable when he was replaced by the gold-greedy Alcande Quintero. And so young Diego came over the seas from Spain's West Point to rescue his people and restore to them his father's benign rule...
...stern test of events the plumbing proved out of order, the timetable out of date. The love of Empire which had caused Father Joe to break with Gladstone over Home Rule for Ireland was the driving force of Neville Chamberlain's life. It was a perverse and shortsighted love. It was said that he would sacrifice, not only Ethiopia, Spain and Czecho-Slovakia, but the half of the world that was not Britain's, to save the British Empire. Alert to the danger of war, he made it his policy to avert war at all costs -even...
...namelessness with the beautiful shape of an egg. It divided, and became heaven and earth. And it divided again and became male and female. These in their turn begat Izanagi and Izanami, who begat the Sun Goddess, who had a great-great-grandson named Jimmu Tenno, who descended to rule the earth...
...change in the House rules for entertaining guests would have to meet the complaints of over-strictness and over-complication. To harmonize with the general tendency at Harvard to treat undergraduates as mature persons, it would have to throw more responsibility on the individual student. This cannot be done by abolishing the parietal regulations in one fell swoop; the "honor system" can easily be carried too far, as Esquire's aggrieved females tell us each month. A suitable compromise might well be the Oxford card system, which was proposed in 1936 at the time when the "two-woman" rule...