Word: available
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they do each year that Boris takes a few days off, as to whom he might choose as his Queen. Names of all the probable and improbable princesses were pondered; the political effects of a dozen possible liasons were dis- cussed and expanded to absurd proportions. But to no avail...
...empires. England, rather free with promises, about Egyptian independence during the war, is once more closing fast her grip on the country of the Nile. She claims special interest, and intends to enforce it, in the Egyptian army and frontiers. Egypt's hesitation about acceding to this demand will avail her nothing. More logically than ever Egypt is an essential link in Britain's Empire. Not only the Suez and the sea passage to India, but the protectorates in Traz and Palestine, the virtual protectorate in Persia, all these make control over Egypt doubly important to Great Britain...
...denouncing the plan Mr. Boynton went on to say that the appointment is uncalled for because the jury, in the case was a fact-finding body and that at that time the attorneys for the defense were able and fully competent to avail themselves of any opportunity to find errors if they existed. "We are coming to the time", Mr. Boynton went on to say, "when the decisions of our courts and their findings are the subject for mass meetings, as if a case could be handled more intelligently in mass meetings than in a courtroom." The popular petitions...
...Vagabond is forced to confess ignorance. But he has heard Professor Webster lecture, he knows that Professor Webster has had an unrivaled opportunity to study this subject in his work in the British foreign office and his long access to the British archives, and he is going to avail himself of this easiest and pleasantest way imaginable to find out just what Great Britain was thinking and doing in relation to the rest of the world around the year...
...Roller Skates" The time-worn arguments that: "The faculties of colleges and universities are charged with developing boys into men. Men nowadays drive cars. Students should learn to handle cars. That is a vital part of the education of the modern man and woman," are used to little avail and nothing new or of interest is given. True, the editorial will appeal to the emotions of many people dissatisfied with the present situation at the universities and colleges where the use of student cars is prohibited or restricted, but beyond that there is little substance...