Word: arma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goal of the Disarmament Con ference must be not limitation of arma ments at existing strength but their re duction...
Tackling practice tried tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...
...neglect to notice the Page & Shaw, coat of arma over the Throne. That's to prove that, Elizabeth was the Candy...
Under the Old President. Warren Gamaliel Harding was President in that March of 1923, when the 67th Congress was passing and the prospect of the 1924 election was first discussed. He had swung the Limitation of Arma ments Conference to rather more than expected success ? a great achievement whose limitations were not yet perceived. However, the kindhearted, human Harding? cabineted by Secretaries Hughes, Mellon, Hoover, on the one hand; by Fall, Daugherty, Denby, on the other ? had not found all his road smooth. Congress? the Congress with Senator Knute Nelson, Samuel E. Nicholson, La Baron B. Colt, Frank...
With the cessation of hostilities and the signing of the armistice, large arma ments fell into disrepute among the Allied powers of Europe, England, France, and Italy alike scrapped hundred of ships, stopped building dreadnoughts, placed many of the old ones out of commission, and reduced naval property an personnel wherever possible. Besides being decidedly economical, it was felt that this policy would indicate general confidence and more firmly establish peaceful friendships...