Word: compact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, has the following agenda: fixation of arrangements for two international opium conferences, which may be held at Geneva next Summer; discussion of the white slave traffic evil; investigation of questions affecting international health, slavery, Russian refugees, anti-obscene literature campaign, intellectual cooperation movement; consideration of reduction of armaments, compact of mutual guarantees (TiME, Aug. 20), German colonists in Poland, Memel dispute, Saar Valley report, appointment of a new High Commission for Danzig, Austrian report, plans for financial rehabilitation of Hungary, reports of the various countries holding mandates, World Court decision on Czecho-Polish dispute; discussion of the jurists...
...protection is in our fraternity. Our armor is our faith. The tie that binds more firmly year by year is the ever increasing acquaintances and comradeship, and the compact is not of perishable parchment but of fair and honorable dealing which, God grant, shall continue for all time...
...upon Governor Pinchot. There is no reason to believe that the President is luke-warm in his Prohibition sentiments nor that he has abetted any relaxation in federal enforcement. The difficulty appears to be that although a majority of the population of the country favor Prohibition, a large and compact minority in one section--along the Atlantic seaboard--not only disapprove of but openly defy this law. When enforcement officers and even the judiciary in this "wet" belt are bought off, execution of the law becomes extremely difficult. In fact the propriety of having so rigid a law is seriously...
...Significance. A compact, well constructed novel, written with Mrs. Wharton's unfailing deftness and giving a faithful picture of War-time Paris, A Son at the Frant, can hardly fail to attract a considerable audience. And yet it seems a curiously lifeless book. The characters seem shadowy and unsubstantial; the exact, neat detail, lacking in any real significance; the tale, twice-told. To your reviewer, coming, as it does after Mr. BritUng, Sonia, Le Feu, Three Soldiers, One of Ours and Through the Wheat, A Son at the Front appears like an exhibition of perfect waxworks, meticulously constructed, displaying every...
...years from now the Unitarian Association will celebrate its 100th birthday. And at that time the Unitarian churches of the country are expected to form themselves into a more solidly compact organization than they have hitherto thought necessary. Last week the Unitarian General Conference met in New Haven and voted to merge with the American Unitarian Association. This merger, if brought about in 1925, will close a period of purely congregational organization...