Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations finds its exponent in M. Leon Bourgeois, a venerable French statesman. Bernard M. Baruch adds a clear chapter on inter-allied debts; and many another financial or economic question is discussed by many another expert...
...There is no need to point to the moral or to adorn the tale. Again, one man, one individual has nullified the deliberately expressed will of 50,000 voters who had written a virtually new chapter in American political initiative in meeting the extraordinary requirements of the California electoral law. In one day, each of these 50,000 persons affixed his signature thirteen times to the petition to place Independent Progressive electors on the ballot. This action of the electorate one judge out of seven how declares null and void. Fortunately, while the will of the people has been thwarted...
Prof. C. H. Mac Hwain G. '03 spent the first part of the summer in Cambridge as an instructor in the Summer School. At the close of the summer session he went to his house in Maine and devoted his time to "loafing and working on a chapter for the Cambridge Medieval History...
...final chapter, "Experiences in America," obviously transcribed from a careful diary, "gives greetings" to Tolley's U. S. friends and, though somewhat overspattered with the first person singular, should help the book sell. Tolley's countrymen may feel that this chapter smacks of the alibi for its author's repeated failures abroad; the U. S. friends will find its humor well-meant but embarrassingly weak...
...Chapter entitled "Why England Appears to Be Behind America" sets forth that Englishmen take too great delight in pounding colossal tee-shots, neglecting the rest of their game. Americans, intent upon complete mastery of whatever they take up, hold themselves in to "an old man's game" off the tees and "evoke admiration by their daring and skilful shots up to the flag." Americans take golf intensely, says Tolley; they spend more time and money on it, have orthodox professional stylists after whom to model their games. Not so the English. To them it is only a game...