Word: chiefs
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...Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907 is the most important understanding of its kind today. It gives England the ascendency in Afghanistan and equal rights in Persia and Thibet, but it frees Russia from all frontier troubles. France is the chief gainer by it, as the quarrels between England and Russia, which Germany has in the past turned to such good account against the French interest, are now obviated, and the affairs of France on three continents are thereby greatly improved and simplified...
...committee is appointed, the chairman can then lay his hands instantly on a store of experience of past years. He will know just when is the right time to begin work, just what expenses he may expect to meet, and, in short, will be relieved of the chief responsibility in working out the problems of his task...
...more nearly self-supporting than they are at present. The total surplus will not be materially reduced. Even if is decreased somewhat,--which we doubt,--it will mean simply that the Stadium debt will have to run a little longer. On the other hand one of the chief commercializing tendencies will be gone, and we will be well rid of the nuisance of the collector, who is trying to prove, by a method unsatisfactory to all, his fitness for an important position...
...Andre Tardieu, who will deliver the lectures this year, is honorary first secretary of embassy as well as chief of the foreign political bureau of the "Temps." In 1895 he was the first to be taken into the upper normal department of the Ecole at Paris. However, being attracted by the problems of diplomacy, M. Tardien gave up this appointment, and a year and a half later received the position of attache to the French embassy at Berlin, where he became acquainted with a number of leading German diplomats...
...usual strong team composed of fast skaters who play, well together. They won easily from Pomfret, whom the Freshmen defeated 3 to 1, by the score of 15 to 1. However, the Freshmen defeated Arlington High, the Interscholastic champions, yesterday afternoon by the score of 6 to 0. The chief fault of the Freshman team has been a tendency on the part of the forwards not to pass the puck and a consequent lack of team, play. Individually, however, the team is fast and handles the puck well. Hornblower and Paul, who played as substitutes yesterday, did so well that...