Word: broad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except from arbitration nearly as many subjects as did the treaty which it replaces, the Franco-U. S. arbitration pact of 1908. Not to be arbitrated under the old treaty were matters involving "national honor," "vital interests," or "a third state"-that is to say the exceptions were so broad as practically to permit either state to refuse arbitration of any case which it did not want arbitrated. The new treaty text, temporarily withheld from publication last week, was announced to provide for arbitration of "all disputes" except those relating to "domestic questions," "a third state," the Monroe Doctrine...
...hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers' banquet wearing a white dress cravat of such unique and blatant size that the ends of the bow measured three inches broad, completely masking his collar and neck...
Chief of the industrial hives of Spain is Barcelona, where smart Hispano-Suiza motor cars are made, where boulevards are broad and new, where huge docks and sprawling factories are ever busy. Last week 70% of the workers in Barcelona struck, in protest against the imposition of an income tax upon small pay envelopes. The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance to the impoverished and lackadaisical farmers of Southern Spain at the expense of such industrialized Northern cities as Barcelona...
...long time the political trend has been toward the Left, but the electorate, while increasingly enamoured of more and more advanced social legislation, retains its poise, stability, and that deep and broad democracy which is bred in the Norwegian bone, a heritage from sturdy Vikings. Therefore since the Socialist and Communist parties achieved between them 61 of the 150 seats in the Storting, at the elections of last Fall, they have been given an opportunity, which flowered last week, of expounding and testing their theories from the part of Power. Cannily watching the situation and holding a salutary whip hand...
...Freshmen are weak in the high jump, broad jump, and pole vault. Avery of Andover is entered in the pole vault again this year and should score a first place for the Academy in that event...