Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little exercise and breathe the fresh air of nature for a few hours each Sunday and many are thankful for the tortuosity of belief which allows it. One factor still remains in the situation, however, to plague the happiness of the men who entered into this agreement with the Almighty. Does the Deity who frowns upon the playing of Sunday tennis except between 2 and 6 o'clock recognize the validity of daylight saving time? In the light of Einsteinian ideas of space-time, one hesitates to get into discussions on this sort of thing, and perhaps it would...
...second major proposal of last week was offered on behalf of Germany. It envisions an international agreement pledging every nation to make public all details concerning its armaments. Although very unpopular among the Allied Powers, this plan cannot be ignored as offered in "bad faith," because it happens to be only a very slight extension of Article VIII of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which provides that League states must confide to each other all about their armaments, though in practice they never...
Seemingly beside himself, Mr. Snowden spoke even more rashly: "Does Mr. Churchill then maintain that an agreement which is made by a government supported by a party [Conservative] which happens to have a temporary majority in the House of Commons, commits every other party [Labor and Liberal] in the State to the confirmation and acceptance of that agreement in future? If that is to be so, it is a doctrine to which I cannot subscribe...
...only inference that can be drawn from Snowden's words." Mr. MacDonald: "A totally false inference! I have always declared that the American debt settlement was bad; but inside this House and out of it I have said that so far as we are concerned, until that agreement...
...time would seem ripe for some new gentlemen's agreement which would bring to Harvard and her major competitors an equal share in the disadvantages of a certain proportion of public practice sessions. With all parties starting thus from scratch, no one could pipe up and point to defeats as the result of too few secret practices; and the team might regain some of that organic unity with the student and alumni, the loss of which has lead to the recent plaintive whining about lack of vocal support...