Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have made it clear to the debtor nations again and again . . . that each individual nation has full and free opportunity individually to discuss its problem with the United States." In short, the U. S. will listen to reason, but debtors must not try to gang up on the U. S. with threats of joint action...
...which forbids all future public or private loans to defaulting nations. But in Washington early this week British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay sent the State Department a note announcing that, because the Johnson Act invalidates token payments, Great Britain would pay not another farthing "until it becomes possible to discuss an ultimate settlement of the intergovernmental war debts with a reasonable prospect of agreement." Same day Finland's Minister announced that his country would pay in full...
...dislikes plotting engine areas, explains his ideas to subordinates who put them on paper. No businessman, he has sold enough patents, like those for the front-wheel drive under which Cord operates, to make him several fortunes. Yet he is perpetually in financial straits, once refusing to discuss a deal which might have made him rich because the manufacturer "talked engines like a durn fool...
...featured, lumbering fellow who attended every class meeting and otherwise tried hard to be "regular." His professors remember him as a student with a photographic mind who learned everything 100% right the first time. Prodigy Hardy has traveled abroad almost every summer since childhood. He can discuss theology in 17 languages. Scholarly friends treasure his letters in Latin, filled with doggerel and idiomatic anecdote. But most of his intimates have been non-scholars who at first did not know or care about his prodigiousness, later liked him in spite of it. He automatically corrects conversational misstatements, but so diffidently that...
...great powers, so vexing to pre-war Europe, has not arisen to trouble the waters. Now, apparently credible reports indicate that the former charming friendship between France and Russia is being restored. Amusingly enough, the moves in the game are strikingly like those from 1890 onward. First, the generals discuss military problems and an "understanding" is reached. Either concurrently or shortly afterward, this is supplemented by a political agreement. As in 1894, these preliminaries will now probably be completed by a treaty of military assistance. If France succeeds in attaining this objective, she will again have encircled Germany and Germany...