Word: among
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plans proposed for common action among nations to prevent war the only one which seems to have a chance of success is that of the League to Enforce Peace, because it proposes the use of force. The experience of the work has shown that when any authority is set up backed by force men cease to carry arms, but are ready, if necessary to support those to whom force is entrusted. The time has come when we must put force behind international law as we do behind every other kind of law that is obeyed...
Professor Taussig has won an international reputation as an economist, having written several important books, among which are "A Tariff History of the United States," "The Silver Situation in the United States," "Wages and Capital" and "Principles of Economics." Through more than 25 years of especial attention to tariff problems he has established himself as the most impartial and authoritative writer on matters of fiscal policy in this country...
...most creative minds in nineteenth century science, whose work at New Haven was possible largely because he was a man of means and of good family. Perhaps the general cause of science might prosper more in this country if there were greater co-operation and less provincial isolation among the various groups of specialists. Thus the great meeting in New York this week is marked by the absence of all the social science associations, which meet in Columbus, Ohio. The separation between the social and the physical scientists can surely not be of any real advantage to either...
...University has been the successful bidder among many institutions on a collection of minerals, regarded by scientists as one of the finest lots of specimens ever assembled by one man, representing the life-work of the late Elwood P. Hancock, of Burlington, N. J. Being a talented artist and cabinet carver by profession, he increased the attractiveness of the specimens by working out the natural crystals on the face...
...Wolff '79, curator of the Museum of Mineralogy, who said that this group would supplement the famous Albert F. Holden collection which came into the possession of the University three years ago. The original collection of minerals which the University started some time in 1874 is the oldest among American colleges...