Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Callers at White Court included Representative Fred S. Purnell (prospective Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture) to discuss farm legislation; William Phillips, Ambassador to Belgium, presumably to discuss the forthcoming Belgian debt negotiations...
...Paderewski retold the story delightfully with one or two minor variations, such as the Englishman taking his biscuits, his port wine and his pipes. He said he was going to follow his compatriot and discuss the Polish question- but without including the elephant...
...about to fall every time a Cabinet member or Senator came to White Court, since all members of the Cabinet and all Senators now at the Capital had been invited to come to Swampscott and spend a week end if they liked, to get away from the heat, to discuss if they cared to, in a general way, the program for next winter; and especially not to report oftener than once in two weeks that Secretary Weeks had resigned or was about to resign-which the President has several times denied-not to indulge in this rumor too often...
...Unafraid that they would generalize their subject into thin air, they deployed last week in polyglot platoons to discuss international teaching of History ("banish war heroics"), Civics and Geography; establishment of standard courses, in the normal schools of all countries, on Internationalism; establishment of a world university and a universal library service; agreement upon a reciprocal arrangement concerning university degrees and credits, whereby students could migrate from one university to those of other countries without interrupting their studies...
...your issue of July 13, Page 16, under "Epidemics," you discuss the Epidemiological Report of the League of Nations Secretariat and state that "smallpox is less prevalent in the United States and Canada than ever before." The most recent of these reports available to us is that of May 15, which has recently arrived and to which I gather you refer. It reads in part: "The smallpox situation in the United States seems to have begun to improve: 3,412 cases were reported in 27 states during the four weeks ending March 28. ... It appears thus that the maximum incidence...