Word: brink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
...week, the famed "Iron Man" of German finance faced the fiscal representatives of six creditor states,* thrusting at them reasons why Germany must not pay, either quickly or in full, the bills they have presented. With a studious, almost pugnacious restraint Dr. Schacht stopped time and again on the brink of saying, "Germany cannot pay." His manner bristled with the confidence that this conclusion would be reached by anyone not a nincompoop. Hour after hour the U. S. Chairman of the Committee, Owen D. Young, sat slightly reclined, with his long lawyer-legs comfortably crossed. He puffed a pale cigar...
Thus far the C. F. R. F. has collected some $340,000 after appealing ten months ago for $10,000,000: less than $1 each for the 12,000 Chinese who are now on the brink of starvation (TIME, Sept...
This very literacy, plus the proletarian character of the only partially assimilated immigrant population, has given Argentine politics their pronounced Socialist trend, a trend which only sternest measures by a series of strong Socialist Presidents has halted on the brink of Bolshevism...
...brink of a 2,000 foot precipice teetered, last week, the largest monolith of flawless Carrara marble ever quarried...