Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have read with interest the articles appearing in your columns last week urging certain reforms in the Fogg Museum, and while I am in agreement with the recommendations for library hours, entrances at night, and improvement of the lighting and ventilating systems in this building, I can not but feel that there was in evidence a narrow and selfish spirit in regard to the Radcliffe students...
...failure to bring about an agreement on naval arms with Great Britain at Geneva in 1927 may or may not be laid at Mr. Gibson's door. In Foreign Affairs, for April, John William Davis, onetime (1918-1921) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's undertook to explain this diplomatic breakdown, to minimize Anglo-American differences, to suggest a policy under which naval limitations could be accomplished. Attracting wide attention in Washington, Mr. Davis wrote...
...sound common-law marriage is usually composed of: 1) a man and a woman both legally competent to make the contract (age, absence of other matrimonial obligations, etc.); 2) their actual and mutual agreement to enter the union faithfully, permanently, to the exclusion of all others; 3) their cohabitation; 4) the length of time they live together (varying in practice from one to seven years); 5) their public and social conduct as man and wife. Children by such a union, the existence of a settled home, and the community's recognition, all tend strongly to confirm the relationship...
...after the exchange of views it shall appear that no agreement can be reached and the United States is not prepared to forego its objection, the exercise of its powers of withdrawal [from the World Court] will follow without the imputation of unfriendliness or unwillingness to cooperate generally for peace and good will...
...moment his company is at work on a $41,000,000 railroad through the Andes mountains for the Bolivian Government. He also has signed an agreement to make the largest airport in the world on the Jersey meadows opposite New York. He has always been interested in sports but was drawn into the fight game by Rickard, who picked him as the man to build the new Madison Square Garden when the old one had to be abandoned. He is a millionaire. If he can promote fights the way the late Rickard could, he will be a millionaire again...