Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Fletcher: "Very strong document...
...Document. The paper which he sent in bore 44 signatures, and began...
...000th "document," deposited quite unceremoniously last week, consisted of a packet of notes exchanged between Norway and Sweden respecting the continuance of the Swedish-Norwegian Arbitration Convention of 1905. Statisticians observed that 940 treaties have already been published by the League Secretariat, in 35 volumes of 400 pages each. Further they noted that all these documents have been published in French and English, and additionally in the language of origin when that happens to be neither French nor English. To date, Germany though not a member of the League has made heavy contributions to the documents on register...
...impertinence and effrontery of this document must have struck all of its readers. As a blanket indictment of the regular body of University tutors, it has seldom been excelled. As a reflection on the general level of intelligence of the Senior Class it was no less descending...
Significance. Here is art on a major scale. As characters, these Germans stand in their own right. As a human document, that is, emotionally, the book is unwaveringly valid. It is also a sound social contribution, bringing progress and tradition into violent conflict. Historically it is significant that Manhattan has been chronicled again by one of her stoutest-hearted inhabitants...