Word: documented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ratified, with reservations, after a long debate (in which Senator Copeland of New York filibustered in a speech eight hours long, wandering over the floor and talking to anyone who would listen) the Isle of Pines Treaty, acknowledging Cuba's sovereignty over that island. The document bears at the bottom the following words...
...Pearson Mitchell Stackhouse of Philadelphia," the man replied, drawing a typewritten document from his pocket. "This is my speech...
...proposed Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations-a document devised last summer to maintain the status quo in Europe, to enable European Powers to disarm and to set up a system of obligatory arbitration of international disputes under threat of combined punitive measures (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.)-was last week unanimously declared dead (because the British Commonwealth of Nations does not intend to sign it) and the whole question of security loomed large in the politics of Europe...
Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain began to outline his policy and stated that it was desirable, in order to prevent Europe from splitting into two armed camps, that Germany should become a party to the proposed treaty of security (see INTERNATIONAL). But when he referred to a secret document that he had received from Germany, the irrepressible Clydesider, "Dave" Kirkwood,* shouted: "Wot abaht the Red letter?"-a reference to the Zinoviev letter which aided the Conservatives in the last election (TIME...
Respect was the first requirement demanded of all Freshmen. The first rule in the old document reads, "No Freshman shall go by his Senior without taking his hat off if it be on." Exceptions to this may be made, it goes on to explain, in the case of a Freshman who is riding on horseback or who has both his hands occupied. Furthermore, "No Freshman shall ask his Senior an impertinent question," doubtless lest the latter be shocked. And woe betide the unhappy Freshman who failed to observe the next rule, that "No Freshman shall laugh in his Senior...