Word: dis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman team this year has been prepared in a radically different manner. Men have been permitted to choose their own sides, and the preparation, instead of being in the form of practice debates before empty halls, has consisted for the most part in table dis- cussions where a complete mastery of the whole subject was the point mostly stressed. The speaking which has been done has been before audiences where the candidates spoke against each other. In every case the speaker has exercised his own choice of subject matter and method of presentation, subject only to the criticism of Coach...
...cases. But it had a very basic fault in that it was not permanent, not a court, and not an adequate body for arbitration. Since the war a Permanent Court of International Justice has been formed which has proved more adequate. However, these two courts can handle only legal dis- putes; a machine was still needed that would intergrate the world, where the political leaders could meet in conference. For this purpose," he concluded, "the League of Nations, in which all people who are interested can give and take with understanding, was established...
...inert gas of great light ness and non-inflammability, present in the air in minute quantity. Airships inflated with hydrogen or other gases are subject to the danger of being exploded by anti-aircraft guns or engine accidents; helium is immune to such catastrophes. Helium was first dis covered, in 1868, by Sir J. Norman Lockyer, the astronomer, by spectroscopic analysis, as one of the ingredients of the sun's chromosphere, or outer coat. For a long time it was supposed to be indigenous to the sun only, but in 1895 Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), the brilliant British...
...claim to cosmic recognition at the time was moderate success as a soubrette in a second class London music hall. She is careless of Cockney accent but scrupulous of moral tone. Amid the exotic realities of Monte Carlo, her male acquisition develops desperate ennui and she departs in dis- consolate defiance...
...simply. There the question of linguistic difficulties does not arise. To secure a tutor who is well acquainted with the language and literature of three nations is a more serious task than to find one versed in History, Government and Economics. As a matter of fact there is some dis...