Word: allay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt it is a touching tribute to the college man that the special investigators should have chosen this particular disguise to allay suspicion and to coax hidden beverages from their secret places. But if this practice continues, and the faith of restaurant owners is repeatedly betrayed by masquerading detectives, the college man will be driven to a last and desperate resort. His final remedy will be, of course, to return the compliment and disguise himself as a "rum hound"" which as Donald Ogden Stewart says, is easily done by tucking the ends of one's necktie under the points...
...allay Socialist anger he has also decreed that sewing, knitting, weaving and saddlery shall be equally compulsory. Before receiving diplomas, girls must know how to mend their frocks; boys, their shoes...
...supplies for the refugees in eighteen hours. It was the first relief to reach Yokohama, where thousands of refugees were rescued. These people, mostly Chinese, had lived more than four days without food or water, suffering all the while indescribable physical torment from their wounds. In an attempt to allay in some measure the pain, they bathed themselves in the salt water, which only served to torture them more...
...more of a factor in international politics on account of her immense population and the possibilities of her heretofore unworked industrial and commercial wealth. It is the exploitation by foreign nations of just this wealth that China now fears. The problem of the American diplomat in China is to allay these fears by helping her to establish cooperative relations with the other nations, and by seeing to it that she gets a square deal. The college man who is looking forward to such a career should make a study of international law and Chinese history...
...better shape. There is a widespread belief in England that the failure to come to a closer agreement with France in the Cannes Conference was a serious diplomatic blunder. Many think that the trip of the Prince of Wales to India, where his presence has failed to allay the revolutionary discontent, was another costly mistake. Conditions in Egypt, already bad enough from the meagre reports that reach the press, call for drastic remedies, according to General Allenby, and ones which the present Cabinet cannot well grant...