Word: employs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...providing us with "something just as good." But if the Knox resolution is passed by Congress, it is almost certain to be vetoed. Even in the almost inconceivable event of its final success, it can only land us in hopeless confusion at home and abroad. To attempt to employ such a substitute as this argues more than the usual degree of Senatorial unreason. As a piece of political juggling, it is altogether admirable; as constructive statesmanship, it is beneath contempt...
Thirdly, the chief argument by which Red agitators gain recruits in the allied countries disappears with the end of the blockade. There is no other means which these men employ so often and so effectively to stir up a crowd of ignorant people as a denunciation of the allied policy of "starving the Russians...
...United States assumes no obligation to preserve the territorial integrity or political independence of any other country or to interfere in controversies between nations--whether members of the league or not--under the provisions of Article X, or to employ the military or naval forces of the United States under any article of the treaty for any purpose, unless in any particular case the Congress, which, under the Constitution, has the sole power to declare war or to authorize the employment of the military or naval forces of the United States, shall by act or joint resolution so provide...
...undertaken this plan, he replied, "at present the only other school in the country, which I know of that has actively begun work corresponding to ours, is Cornell which has thrown its scientific facilities open to the use of industrial concerns, under almost exactly the same system which we employ here. An interesting feature of Cornell's work and one which goes to show that we were the first in America to start such a policy is that Cornell calls their work the Technology Plan. Although I do not think that other institutions have offered their facilities to industries under...