Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What effect, if any, the break will have on Senator Borah and others who advocate American recognition of the Soviet remains to be seen. As far as the general public is concerned, however, it can have but one result; to strengthen the feeling that the Russian Government is not yet to be trusted. The post-war flurry of the "Bol-shevist menace", with other absurdities of the time, has passed; but the mysterious motives of the Soviet Union have not yet been brought to light. The United States, as things stand at present, does more business with Russia than England...
...which it will be necessary for him to go through. Coach Robertson has decided to limit him to the 100. In the fiftieth annual I. C. A. A. A. A. meet in Cambridge last spring Scull took sixth place in the 100, being the only finalist who didn't break into the scoring column. Last winter in the indoor intercollegiates he took third place in the dash event...
...authorities of both institutions are unable to arrange a meeting for 1928, we are willing to accept a one-year interval in the long series of annual games. But, if Harvard desires to discontinue football relations with Brown, which seems unlikely, we are quite as willing to accept the break as the Crimson. Harvard has just as much to lose from such a move as Brown...
...Harvard football schedule is ironed out satisfactorily. We heartily agree with the Crimson authorities that the Brown game is too difficult and too important to come between two other big contests. However, we are somewhat at a loss to understand how Harvard can risk even a temporary break in a rivalry of forty-three year's standing merely to rearrange her own schedule so that it includes another "big" game with an institution which the Crimson has not played since 1909-The Brown Herald...
...market has been ripe to break for months, of course, but none the less Dr. Schacht brought about the crash, He called the leading German banking representatives into his office and informed them quietly that they had lent too much money to speculative market operators. This condition could not be remedied, as would ordinarily be the case, by raising the Reichsbank rate, because Dr. Schacht put the rate down from 6% to 5% last January, and considers that level necessitously expedient for reasons affecting his defense of the gold mark.* As a result there remained not sufficient sums...