Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Court has jurisdiction to submit binding decisions only when both parties to the dispute agree to abide by that decision. Also the Court has the power to hand down advisory decisions when requested to do so by the League of Nations. In contrast the Permanent Court of Arbitration is in reality more a panel of judges than a court. Over a hundred justlees are listed and in a dispute sumitted to arbitration a council of judges is selected from the list...
...would probably ensue no matter which side won in Spain, Professor Langer went on to outline the consequences if the insurgents were victorious, which he believes is the probable outcome. "France will be in the intolerable position of having three Fascism dictatorships on her borders," he said, "in starting contrast to the situation a few years ago, when she was in the dominant position in Europe...
...written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged to throw last year (TIME, Oct. 1, 1935). Education is not unduly favored by the Dutch Premier, and this year he is retrenching another $5,000,000 in the running of The Netherlands' schools...
...usual, the mass of the exhibits were exercises in mediocrity. Such artists as Sculptor Concetta Scaravaglione, Muralist James Michael Newell, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Aaron Bohrod and a sprinkling of others were able to produce work which seemed, by contrast, superb. An innovation was a new department entitled Index of American...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous...