Word: binds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old boy (V. Konstantinov) who falls asleep at a picnic where a companion has been reading aloud from Gulliver's Travels. Dreaming, he thinks he is Dr. Petya Gulliver, sees himself cast up, after mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital where the idiot king of Lilliputia is presiding over...
...claim that she has not violated the Covenant, but not so easily brushed aside is her claim that she did not violate the Kellogg Pact. In adhering to the Pact she claims the same reservations as were made by Britain, in effect that the Pact does not bind where the signatory is obliged to take measures in one of its "spheres of vital interest." Absurd on its face but capable of being upheld years hence by some august tribunal of international lawyers is Italy's claim that the Pact, as interpreted by onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg...
...public could be told it represented a German concession. So joyful was Adolf Hitler at this prospect that Ambassador von Ribbentrop promptly flew back to London, letting it be known that the Realmleader was willing not only to abide by the 35% limit, category for category, but also to bind Germany to this limit "absolutely and forever...
...loyal to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions? Or was he mixed up in that Independent Board which has caused the Presbyterian Church so much trouble? Mr. McComb finally said that he had never given a penny to the rebel board, but: ''I must refuse to bind myself unconditionally to any of the boards of the Church. I feel that my loyalty is due to Jesus Christ and to Him alone. I will support those agencies which honor Him and which are pleasing to Him and His glory...
...number of Southern landlords, correctly informed by their lawyers that the cotton reduction contract has no legal teeth and does not bind them to maintain the normal number of tenants or to pass their benefit shares along impartially, found means of withholding the reduction fee, ousting tenants from the land. AAA now admits that whereas the pre-New Deal cotton income went 40% to landlords, 60% to tenants, the reverse ratio may now hold true. From a class and country where letter-writing comes hard, some 7,000 share croppers had by last week scrawled out despairing protests to AAAdministrator...