Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the principal competing country in the case of wheat, wheat flour and mill feeds is the Dominion of Canada...
...Earl Balfour, dean of Britain's "Elder Statesmen," intervened in a debate on India to offer a solemn warning to Indian agitators. He charged them with obstructing the British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country...
...connection with this is the Jewish question. I made its acquaintance during the war. For me it is a question of race. Little as the Englishmen or Frenchmen can be permitted to obtain dominion over us, so little can the Jew be permitted. Freedom of the nation cannot be expected from him. Therefore I was against...
...Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim to fame is probably the establishment, through a gift of $500,000, of the Engineering Foundation, a joint research agency of the "big four" national engineering societies?civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical...
...twelve mile limit while " safeguarding, as a cardinal feature of British policy, the principle of a three-mile limit; that, while accepting the principle of a further limitation of armaments, three principles of Imperial defence must be recognized: 1) The deep interest of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand and India in the provision of a naval base at Singapore as essential for insuring the mobility necessary to provide for the security of the territories and trade of the empire in eastern waters; 2) necessity for the maintenance of safe passage along the great route...