Word: breach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Further than that, in the event that the States, in conference, determine that a State has been guilty of a breach of the peace in violation of its international obligations and take measures against the violator, then, if we concur in the judgment rendered as to the responsible and guilty party, we will refrain from any action tending to defeat such collective effort which these States may thus make to restore peace...
Most termite colonies are divided into five castes, apparently determined in the egg. Topping the social scale are the king & queen. They have wings and reproduce. Next come two wingless courtier castes, also fertile, which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These...
...gravest condition if Germany leaves the Geneva conference for the second time. ... I think-and I am speaking without consultation with my colleagues-that the juridical result of this would be that Germany would be bound by the Treaty of Versailles, and an attempt to arm would be a breach of the Treaty. This would bring into operation the sanctions which the Treaty provides...
John & Sam. Pluming himself on superior financial morality, John Bull fairly screamed his abuse at Uncle Sam. "A calculated breach of contract!" shrilled the Financial Times which added: "The word default has an ugly sound but it is used deliberately with respect to the action taken by the U. S." Bumbled the Tory Morning Post: "It would be difficult to find a parallel for so unblushing and callous a breach of contract. ... It is almost unthinkable that Washington would repudiate the letter and spirit of the gold contracts in these bonds." Mocked the Financial News: "Iowa and the farmers...
...century-old doctrine, separation of Church & State, has been added a new doctrine, separation of Business & State. The new doctrine was last week honored in the breach on several counts...