Word: belongs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begins April 16. The Governor of Virginia is chairman of the Governors' committee. Despite the Democratic lien on the spellbinding words " Thomas Jefferson," the campaign is to render non-partisan honor to the memory of the author of the Declaration of Independence. "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness " belong to both parties or neither, runs the editorial comment...
With regard to the Mosul question, it is apparent that Mosul does not belong to the Turks, and, therefore, is not within their jurisdiction. At the moment that city, with its outlying oil district, is situated in the extreme north of the Kingdom of Hedjaz, and under a mandate held by Great Britain from the League of Nations. The question resolves itself to this: Turkey will try to interest America at Lausanne to back her claim to Mosul. It is in effect a political quid pro quo. Turkey will receive Mosul and American interests will work...
What that liberal learning amounts to, is not vastly different from what the present Harvard curriculum purports to offer. But in many courses now, the emphasis is misplaced on the practical side; others, such as Accounting and Commercial Spanish, do not belong in such a curriculum. There should be more attention to the "Humanities" to the "cultural" aspects of Economics and the Sciences. A dozen other factors are involved, such as distribution, and the tutorial system...
...continent by force of arms. Women councillors have never been allowed by the natives, and I am sure that we shall greatly weaken our rule in the eyes of the native if we allow women to take part in our councils." General Byron, referring to the argument that women belong to the home and their husbands: "Men who talk like that are usually men who have had everything done for them by women when they were young, and have grown up to look upon them as reliable unpaid upper servants. Women are certainly different, but they are not inferior...
...flow of immigration, the medical examinations numbered approximately eight to the minute. It is small wonder that the most undesirable specimens got by. During 1922 in the neighborhood of 10,000 immigrants were smuggled in. When it is remembered that barely half of the people in the United States belong to the prevailing national stock, the situation begins to seem difficult...