Word: disturbe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets a job in a Summer hotel and plays on the hotel ball nine" and the man who is engaged as a tutor and plays with his pupils. "Both," it is submitted, "are engaged primarily for their athletic ability." That is common sense, although it may disturb sticklers for the old-fashioned code of amateurism. "We must be chary," says the committee, "of forbidding acts when the evil lies only in their abuse or only in the practical difficulty of discrimination." At the same time, there must be regulations to govern amateur standing, and the mistake must not be made...
...without the gates the Countess stays. And she is a very attractive Countess, it seems; not a Lewis Carrol Duchess in any sense of the word. Like the owner of the polyphonic name from England, she cannot outer to disturb the peace of a land economical even in visas...
...more; if Holland then 1,750,000 more, and if Belgium 2,000,000 more? that is, if we had devoted the same care to the possibilities of the soil, as they have done in these countries, there would be no unemployment problem of any magnitude to disturb and threaten our national life. It is right that each man should ask himself, landlord, farmer, and laborer, is this scheme just and fair...
...next visitors called upon the Pope in the wee hours of the morning. His Holiness was in bed, and in order not to wake him the gentlemen made as little noise as possible; in order not to disturb his court, they considerately let themselves in by the roof of St. Peter's Basilica, visited the sacristy (treasury for sacred ornaments), left with valuables-an antique ring, a pectoral cross, a gilded chalice ornamented with pearls, a gold chalice and, among other things, a gold service for the mass presented by Cardinal Merry del Val. Two days later, robbers...
...laid their minds at ease. This was not a loan, as some of the Deputies thought, but a credit,* and Italy was not contracting a new debt. He took the opportunity to explain that the allegedly imminent refunding of Italy's debt to the U. S. would not disturb the financial security of the country, for "it appears to be pretty generally recognized by the creditor nations that any settlement must be subordinate to the debtor's capacity to pay." However, it was impossible at the moment to inaugurate refunding negotiations...