Word: according
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accord with Mr. Mellon, and it was darned poor judgment to express his views at this time. The people in my country are against reducing income taxes on large incomes...
Other things discussed were: Near East situation; Middle East situation; Egyptian settlement; Washington treaties. It was also agreed to empower the overseas British nations to conclude treaties of their own accord in cases where neither the Home Government or any other British Government is affected...
...life's little ironies" that the twentieth century, so often hailed as the era of internationalism and more perfect accord between nations, should be marked by a recrudescence of high tariffs and protectionism which are the very antithesis of association. The present agitation for protection in England is merely part of a general movement which reached its apex in the Fordney Tariff...
...must ask for it himself, and, failing in this, he must use every effort of his own to obtain it in order to better execute the general plan, and by so doing aid the efforts of the leader. This is imperative and is believed to be much more in accord- ance with destroyer and fleet doctrine than to blindly follow the leader...
...Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects...