Word: shorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building...
...Michigan, private and parochial schoolmasters were gratified. Last week, at the polls, Michigan voters defeated the proposed State Constitutional Amendment- (TIME, Oct. 20) compelling all Michigan children "under the ninth grade and under 16" to attend the public schools-an amendment which would have shorn private and parochial schoolmasters of a round two-thirds of their patronage, In Oregon, other schoolmasters were similarly gratified. Oregon voters dealt in like fashion with a like amendment...
...Though shorn of much of the strength with which she crushed all comers last year, Cornell appeared to be a promising convalescent. Backs Whetstone, Wade and Isaly smashed into the Niagara eleven with commendable violence (27 to 0), and the Big Red line had heft...
...these speeches were extremely pertinent to the general situation, but in four years the situation has changed. The Treaty of Versailles was overthrown by the U. S. Congress and separate treaties signed with the hostile belligerent Powers. In the light of these changes the Wilson speeches are shorn of much of their appeal and usefulness. The League itself has been explained in many books, and naturally from many useful points of view. The value of this book, whittled down to the pith, lies in its appeal to scholarship. Students will certainly find in it a useful, concise and handy reference...
...republic as an Eastern country without any previous experience in popular government could be expected to do. The Constitution, as understood, debars a member of the Royal House from holding either military or civil office, and the State is separated from the Church. The National Assembly is shorn of its direct executive authority, but the Cabinet, which transplants the Council of Commissioners, will be directly responsible, not individually KS Commissioners, but collectively as a Cabinet, to the Assembly. The only innovation is the State Council to be appointed by the President...