Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of twelve nations* will be called this week to discuss piracy in the Mediterranean, and action to be undertaken to suppress...
Editor Woods philosophically decided that: 1) circus and press are comparable enterprises, except that the circus is "a lot saner"; 2) circus folks are not lowbrow, because he heard no vulgar remarks, little profanity in the tents, because they were eager to discuss such things as the labor situation, which they agreed was worse in Washington than in any other State in the union...
Every other year the National Federation of Post Office Clerks holds a convention to discuss ways & means of solving the greatest human problem: how to get more money for less work. Next week the union will convene in Toledo, Ohio. Present, besides delegates from 2,600 locals, will be Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, Governors Davey of Ohio and Murphy of Michigan. Dignitaries though they are, it is doubtful whether they will be able to steal the limelight from a mongrel dog, 40 years dead...
...last week nearly 10,000 Jews crowded the auditorium of Zurich's vast Tonhalle to attend the 20th biennial World Zionist Congress. Never before has a Zionist congress had such a serious problem to discuss: the British scheme for the partition of Palestine which would divide Jewry's sentimental homeland into 1) a northern Jewish state, including most of Palestine's arable land, 2) a southern Arab state, 3) a kidney-shaped British strip including the port of Jaffa and the sacred city of Jerusalem (TIME, July 19, et ante...
...Three Men Discuss Relativity, Aspects of Science, Limitations of Science and other writings, Sullivan disclosed a remarkable flair for simplification, a style distinguished chiefly by lucidity and lack of pretension. Other eminent popularizers have their personal views of the mathematical chart of time and space, usually involving the relation of Science to God. Sullivan also had his personal view, a view wherein science was not entangled with any gods. He did not care for either preaching or carping. Science was a wellspring of beauty, a source of intensely satisfying esthetic experiences. The construction of Relativity was a beautiful piece...