Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ramsay MacDonald's recent visit to this country was made with a view toward discussion frankly and openly the points at issue with regard to an Anglo-American understanding," he continued. "Agreement in principle between England and America is merely prerequisite to a larger international understanding, and no international naval disarmament could be successful until the differences between the United States and Great Britain had been smoothed...
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...This does not mean that any fixed agreement on disarmament has been made, because the two nations would certainly not commit themselves to details until the attitudes of the other powers had been obtained at a general conference...
...announcement that Harvard, along with Radcliffe and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has come to an agreement with the city of Cambridge on the question of tax exemption is hardly news of a startling nature to those closely connected with the affairs of the University. Nor is the agreement itself of such wide-reaching importance as the political campaigners of Mayor Quinn would like to pretend. Its effect on the coffers of the city will probably not be very noticeable for at least two or three years, and in calling the agreement a great present good, Mr. Quinn...
Whatever the material effects of the agreement may be, however, there can be little doubt that it represents the culmination of a movement long in the process of evolution which may prove to have much more than local significance in the age-old struggle between town and gown. With the industrial development of many university towns, there has inevitably sprung up a good deal of competition for favorable land sites. That the university should have the advantage of tax-exemption in all cases has seemed to some an anachronism which long since should have been done away with. The advantages...