Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Craig: "There are substantial areas on the Ulster side of the boundary inhabited by persons who would rather belong to the Free State. I do not want to keep them if they express a desire...
...reconstruction of the roof of Rheims Cathedral, repairs to the fountains of Versailles, general reconditioning of the grounds of Fontainebleau Palace. In thanking Mr. Rockefeller for his munificence, Premier Poincare declared it to be "witness of your unswerving friendship for France and your admiration for her architectural glories which belong, as you so well say, to the artistic patrimony of the whole world...
...comparatively small number of men, their effect on the Union must always be negligible; similarly, the harm done by their narrowness, their snobbishness and their own little rivalries cannot be great. It is true that representatives of the University who often loomerage in the public eye, more than occasionally belong to final clubs, and from this it may be argued that the outside opinion of Harvard is unduly colored by the "undemocratic" stratum. But undergraduates, knowing the University as it is find it difficult to alarmed by the "vagaries of Public opinion; one expects it to be misled by surface...
...owned the valuable plot some two centuries ago. For a modest fee to cover the expenses of investigating the title, the swindlers hold out to their prospects the possibility of sharing in the sale of the property for many millions of dollars, should it be found rightfully to belong to the Bogardus heirs. For many years the clique lived off the "fees" obtained from the "heirs...
...preparing for a conference in Constantinople "to thrash out the Mosul question." When the Allied differences with Turkey were patched up at Lausanne (TiME, Aug. 6) one of the problems left over for further discussions was that of Mosul. The technical argument over Mosul is: Does it belong to Iraq or to Turkey? The real trouble is much deeper than that. Mosul has become in diplomatic language a mere pseudonym for oil, because around that city are rich oil fields. Britain has a protectorate over Iraq and supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants of Iraq) against Turkish claims to Mosul...