Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish, however, to have any misunderstanding of our actions and therefore we shall not lay these keels until there has been opportunity for a full consideration of their effect upon the final agreement for parity, although our hopes of relief from construction lie more largely in the latter years of the program...
...advice. Last week, after a month of spirited bickering among European chancellories, it was decided to hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen Wilhelmina's tidy Netherlands would provide, it was felt, an ideally placid atmosphere. Brussels, although favored in London and Paris as the seat for the conference, was ruled out after strenuous protests were received from Berlin. The Germans claimed that Belgium is "still surcharged with war hatred...
...outburst assumed real importance only when wizened Philip Snowden, Labor's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, observed in his most bilious tones, "I cannot trust myself to say what I think of the way we have been treated .... I agree with Mr. Lloyd George's statements. . . ." Although tacitly admitting that circumstances would probably oblige the empire to stomach the Young Plan, Chancellor Snowden militantly added that at The Hague he would make one paramount demand: The new International Bank of Settlement must be located in London...
Earth's atmosphere is only seven to eight miles thick. Aviators have been able to reach the top and hover there a few moments. Outside is the tenuous stratosphere, about 70 miles thick. Man has not entered that yet, although small balloons bearing measurements have done...
Conductor Fiedler has been troubled by open air acoustics. On the first night, as his music proceeded from the huge, conch-like acoustic shell, queer things happened. Tubas became thunderous, reverberant. Strings quavered into curious silences. Kettledrum tones were like feeble rasps on a gourd. Although untrained listeners were unaware, sensitive Conductor Fiedler was beside himself...