Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seven Deadly Sins. Thus, for a mute warning, the effigies of Vice stand against the effigies of Virtue before the face of the Lord. Ingenious are the presentiments of the Seven Sins-pungent apothegms in grey stone. They wear modern clothes, those jaunty evils; they are grouped about a central boss, Penance, symbolized by Peter, who receives the keys of the Church from Jesus Christ. The seven...
Discussion, wearying and pointless, centred about the U. S. proposal for a central body to control production of the drug and a plan to decrease importations by 10% annually. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of the U. S. delegation brought up a new proposal to send expert committees into opium-producing countries to determine what crops could be profitably grown instead of opium. Nobody could agree with anybody; all presented compromise plans; none accepted them, and there the matter rested. After U. S. Bishop Charles H. Brent had withdrawn from the Conference, disgusted, and one of the Indian delegates had been withdrawn...
...well known, was that the King offered to lead an Army himself in the Allied cause. The offer was refused as clearly impossible if Spain were to maintain a neutral attitude. And, in last proof of his devotion to the Allies, at a time when the fortunes of the Central Powers were at their highest and pro-German feeling in Madrid was openly evinced, Alfonso was quoted as saying: "In Madrid, only the canaille and myself are pro-Ally...
...COLLAPSE OF CENTRAL EUROPE? Karl Friedrich Nowak?Dutton ($8.00). A searching analysis of the main events which led to the dissolution of the German and Austrian Empires? lucid, authoritative and of compelling interest...
There are 613 freshmen from New England, 471 of these being from Massachusetts, and 119 from the four Middle Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. The North Central group of states comes next in order with 86 members of the Freshman class. The two largest divisions so far as territory goes, the Southern and Far Western groups, total only 23 members of the class each...