Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groups of nations; x denotes preparedness for war, a variable; t is the length of time during which the nations have been coming together as enemies; k is a "defense-coefficient"; √ is a "fatigue and expense" coefficient; Δ "represents those dissatisfactions-with-treaties, which tend to provoke a breach of the peace...
...respective codes. Trouble with that idea, as with the codes themselves, was the conspicuous lack of agreement on what were good features. What was good to one group was bad to another-if not within that industry, at least to another industry. The Oil Code, largely honored in the breach even before the Supreme Court cracked it open last winter, irritated the big oil companies and pleased some-but not all-little fellows. Actually the passing of the Oil Code will have little effect on the industry. Code or no code, there have always been gasoline price wars. And control...
...famed phrase: "The trouble is I have been a mug." Also proved a noble "mug" was the fourth Lord Revelstoke, handsome young scion of the House of Baring, whose father was a famed British financier and whose mother was the daughter of U. S. Tobaccoman Pierre Lorillard. Suing for breach of promise, one Angela Joyce, "Miss England of 1930," produced a sheaf of letters written by Lord Revelstoke when he was a Cambridge undergraduate and which last week made him blush painfully in court...
...Oklahoma City a group of chainsters were sued for $35,840, the total theoretical payoff on seven $5 letters. Charging breach of contract, the disgruntled buyers declared: "The defendants refused, neglected and failed to sell sufficient letters for the names of the plaintiffs to reach...
Despite the indubitable value of an educational policy which allows upperclassmen a wide sphere of independence, this principle has been carried to an extreme in many of the advanced courses. In some cases it has resulted in the total abolition of section meetings and a gradual widening of the breach between students and professors...