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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this age of topsy-turvyism, and free speech, love, art, music ad infinitum, why does not some sedate mathematics teacher, in an effort to prolong youth and a gleaming eye,--write a new Algebra book? In it he should cast aside all the pomps and vanities of the wicked world, the lusts of the flesh--as well as precedent and have Y win the race, make the money, get the largest part of the apple and marry Mrs. X. He (Y) deserves it after all these centuries...
There was already a plan in existence aiming at the maintenance of world peace ad infinitum. This document was called the Covenant of The League. The new ideas, it was decided, should not interfere with the Covenant, but should reinforce it. A protocol to the Covenant was the method adopted of putting the new ideas into effect. It was early decided to reserve the matter of disarmament for a special international conference to be convoked at Geneva on June...
...preceding the execution of Private Morteza, the Persian Government handed the U. S. Charge dAffaires ad interim, at Teheran, a check...
British Fleet. In the manner of parlance, Sir Cecil Hurst, legal ad- viser to the Foreign Office, "dropped a naval bomb" into the Assembly, when he declared that Great Britain would accept the principle of compulsory arbitration provided that she were not brought into Court because of some act of her Navy performed in attempting to maintain or restore peace. His speech mightily pleased the French, who subsequently agreed unconditionally to the principle of arbitration in international disputes...
...with a 76 (3 strokes over a most difficult par), but bowed to T. A. ("Tony") Torrance, of Sandy Lodge, Eng., in his second match. Torrance simply refused to be impressed by Tofley's enormous tee shots. Thereafter, W. L. Hope, from Turnberry, Scot, disposed of Torrance as Torrance ad mitted he has always been able to. And Hope, in turn, was scotched in the final by Willie Murray, of the West Hill Club, London...