Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John A. Miller, Vice President of Swathmore College and Director of its Sproul Observatory. It will be stationed at Yerbaniz, Mexico. Other members: Profs. E. W. Merriott and W. E. Wright, of Swathmore; Prof. Heber D. Curtis, Director of the Allegheny Observatory, University of Pittsburgh; Prof. Dinsmore Alter, University of Kansas. They will take a 65-foot focal length telescope camera, the largest ever used for this work...
...first session of the Lausanne Conference met at Lausanne, Switzerland, on November 20, 1922. The Allies were obliged to alter their tone to the Turks, because Turkey appeared before them as a conqueror. The Allies, led by the domineering Lord Curzon, British plenipotentiary to the Conference, merely dropped the form of their claims but "held rigidly to the substance. Turkey was told to go home and sign the treaty. She was warned not to break the peace, and with this final admonition the Allied delegates entered their wagon-lits and steamed...
Robert S. Alter, of the American Tool Works, Cincinnati, was careful to add that every dollar's worth of trade would be backed by Russian gold...
...Continent, it is extremely improbable that the Cabinet would resign over a minor issue such as that of the language dispute. It is therefore probable that in inclining toward Anglo-Italian proposals for a reparations policy Premier Theunis became caught in the cross-firing of the French. Unwilling to alter his policy and at the same time pressed by Poincare, French Premier, there was nothing for M. Theunis to do to avoid a rupture either with Britain and Italy on the one hand and France on the other, except resign. He therefore seized upon a domestic pretext for his action...
...even the success of the younger generation in indicting the world can alter the fact that many a boy graduating from college has but a hazy notion of what he expects to "do." Hence it is safe to assume that the figures showing the preferences of the senior class at Harvard are only roughly indicative of their ultimate occupations. The vague term "business" undoubtedly covers a multitude of inarticulate aspirations...