Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"We maintain that naval needs are relative. So far in this conference, aside from what we consider minor details, Great Britain has not offered to give up one single thing.
The Naval Limitations Parley at Geneva (TIME, June 27 et seq.) took on last week the character of a hot and personal duel over a blunt question: "Shall the present voluntary inferiority of the U. S. Navy to the British Navy be perpetuated by a binding treaty?" This question was...
His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, reputedly ordered conveyed to Conservative Premier Stanley Baldwin last week a very strong though private intimation that His Majesty disapproved the Cabinet's sensational proposal to "reform" the House of Lords (TIME, July 4). The reform would limit the number of peers...
"I give my divorced wife 10,000 francs a month [$400]," said M. Caillaux, "I am probably the largest alimony payer in France. Yet, consider. What I give is but a present to her. The Court only ordered a fraction of that amount."
...consider with open mind' sanctioning fornication among our young people with the use of birth control to guard against the coming of children. This is, in plain words, what the high-sounding phrase 'companionate marriage' means, and yet this proposal was mentioned as one to which consideration should be given at the recent church conference in San Francisco [Protestant Episcopal Church Congress] and its consideration is being commended by not a few professors in our universities...