Word: circumventions
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From the Turkish city of Trebizond (equivalent to a U. S. Fundamentalist stronghold) news came last week that pious women have found a way to circumvent the recent law that all Turkish women must go about with their faces naked. Since the Government of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has ravished...
To circumvent this issue, Premier Poincaré suddenly made public, last week, a letter from him to Chancellor Churchill of the British Exchequer, declaring that the French treasury will pay to Britain ?3,000,000 on Sept. 15 next, and ?3,000,000 more on March 15th, 1928. These are...
None the less, U. S. rubber manufacturers are at the mercy of British growers. Vexed, last week Firestone, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear, Ajax, Fisk, Kelly-Springfield decided to circumvent the forestallers. They invited General Motors, Willys-Overland, Dodge Bros., Packard, Studebaker and other interested firms into their compact; created...
Every May it reappears on professors lips. But after stating in cold blood that they are required to cover the whole course with their final test, the instructors proceed to exhibit the ingenuity with which they are in the habit of rendering the requirement innocuous. Most often they leave the...
Though the athletic situation last year seemed to force on the committee at Princeton. Yale and Harvard the financial inquisition of which I am writing and in the responsibility of which I share, such a method cannot be permanent, and indeed cannot be used at all without danger to the...