Word: adopting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...existing high tariff law virtually eliminates the factor of payment in goods by Italy. The new policy which this settlement proposes, therefore, is that as an alternative of cutting our extortionate high tariff to a moderate extent or cutting our foreign debts to a correspondingly greater extent, we adopt the latter course. This policy would, for 62 years, penalize American taxpayers with continued high tariff taxes in the form of increased prices and also with the amount by which the Italian debt has been scaled...
...seem very impractical to suggest it--and there is no question that the suggestion, if put into effect, would work hardship and injustice in a few individual cases for a short while--but in the long run, we believe that the only practical course Harvard can adopt relative to this evil is to announce to the world that, beginning with the college year 1928-1929, German A and French A will not longer be given as simple elective courses...
...submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet,' he would either give the innocent victims some advice on how to avoid them, or, realizing the futility of doing this, he should adopt some plan whereby our suffering, if not eliminated, would be shortened...
...judge correctly the temper of the world--at least down to Locarno--there is probably less disposition to adopt the civilized methods of adjusting conflicting interests than there has been for some time. Few people realize or are willing to contemplate the fact that eleven years of devastating was and disintegrating peace have undermined the moral foundations of many densely populated areas of the world, and that there is more faith in the efficacy of force -- accompanied by a growing contempt for law--as a solution for international differences than there has been since the days of Napoleon. The forces...
...hinted broadly at a wish to discuss with the Vatican some means of reuniting the Eastern (Greek) and Western (Roman Catholic) Christian Churches, and thus bridging the great schism which has lasted more than 1,000 years. 2) Bishop Makary of Peterhof (near Leningrad) urged that the Russian Church adopt "a form of weekly prayer for the Soviet Government, which is now definitely established by the will of the majority of the Russian people . . . and therefore worthy of the prayers of Russian Christians...