Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...display of obstinacy which has thus far characterized the present conference of the League indicates that nationalism still continues to bar the progress of international cooperation. The question of enlarging the council has proved a serious stumbling block. By promising Germany a permanent seat in the select little coterie of the inner chamber, the Locarno signatories felt that they were merely restoring their erstwhile foe to her former place among the European powers...
...company, who died in 1922, established this uniue museum years back. Into it he put old models of his own concern, and models from firms which it had absorbed or which had otherwise gone out of business. But cash registers made by successful competitors had no place in the display because, so say present N. C. R. salesmen, the National Cash Register never recognized competition, ignored it, sold its machines on their own merits...
...fast Freshman quintet took the measure of the highly-touted St. John's Preparatory School court team yesterday afternoon at the Freshman gymnasium by the score of 36 to 17. The game was listless throughout and showed little display of team work. It appeared at times to be merely an exhibition of individual playing, but occasionally a flash of team play was shown...
...former the most important is "Lucasta, Posthume Poems", published in 1658 after the early death of the poet. On the fly page is an excellent woodcut production of the author fashioned as a bust and placed on an urn bearing the word "Posthume". Of Suckling's works on display, the most interesting is his "Fragmenta Aurea, A Collection of All the Incomparable Pieces Written by Sir John Suckling", which was published...
...most beautifully bound book in the colection, which has been placed on display is a copy of "Silex Scintillans", by Henry Vaughan, Silurist, published in 1650. This work by the well known English religious poet is bound in heavy green leather with designs traced in gold. In the center of the outer cover is a silver medallion. The following is a complete list of the authors on exhibition: John Cleveland, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Stanley, Sir John Suckling, Sir John Taylor, George Wither, Frances Quarles, Henry Vaughan, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, John Davies John Taylor, the Water-Poet, Giles Fletcher...