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...realize that the Locarno conference may have brought the pugnacious European powers into some kind of agreement, dark prophets arose seeing a more sinister implication in the conference. True enough, says one of the Boston Transcript's foreign correspondents, that Germany and France are at least apparently in closer accord; but the significance of this surface miracle would blind no one to the fact that this closer cementing of European powers has been accomplished to the accompaniment of a feeling among the assembled diplomats that "We'll show America now." Pan-Europe, as this writer calls the new tendency...
...Negotiations. The history of the attempts to reach a final debt accord is simple: a French proposal, an American counterproposal, a second French proposal-all rejected. Then as M. Caillaux was about to depart the Americans made an offer for a tentative arrangement, which M. Caillaux said he would take home and think over...
...function as a mentor it should be able to provide something more dependable than the unsupported say-so of some individual editor who remains anonymous. To brand a course as worthless, or an instructor as incompetent, on the testimony of one student among several hundred is hardly in accord with the amenities of clean journalism or true sportsmanship...
Suffocation. Dr. Evans forgets that the incident took place ten or twelve years ago. What Dr. Arrowsmith did was quite in accord with the therapy of his period. The carbonic oxygen treatment was not then known. Even now, few small town fire departments are equipped with the apparatus...
...other by political or private regulation. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. Many large companies here in all fields of business tried to regulate their selling prices so as to eliminate frequent or large changes, and to promote price-stabilization. But unless the prices so stabilized accord with economic conditions, they are always likely to experience sharp, disagreeable and sometimes very expensive jolts...