Word: discussed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Picked Freshman teams from the two institutions will discuss the subject: "Resolved, That the world is becoming worse." The subject will cover many topics of undergraduate interest, from the House Plan to the status of the modern generation. Opportunity will be given the audience to question the debaters on any aspect of undergraduate activity which the debate involves...
...moved out before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below the new U. S. rates...
...week strike leaders slightly modified their demands. They were ready to accept a 48-hour week instead of a 40. They would return on the 1927 wage scale, instead of the $20 per week minimum. But Manager J. A. Baugh of the Loray Mill was "too busy" even to discuss these concessions. To him the strikers were just "discharged" employes. His mill, he claimed, was running well without them...
...also believed, although the Council did not discuss the matter, that financial difficulties played a part in the withdrawal. The teams have encountered heavy expenses in their trips this year and it is known that the treasury has been hard...
...opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as follows: "It has recently been my privilege to discuss the general problem of disarmament at considerable length with President Hoover. I am in a position to realize, perhaps as well as anyone, how earnestly he feels that the pact for the renunciation of war opens for us an unprecedented opportunity for advancing the cause of disarmament, an opportunity which admits...