Word: englands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Squash, being of necessity an indoor game, is undergoing some radical changes in the university courts. An inadequate roof and the traditionally wet New England fall have introduced an aquatic element which has proven to be quite upsetting to the conservatives in the game. Under the present arrangements, several advantageously placed gaps in the roof have provided water hazards on the courts of no mean proportions...
...24?St. Catherine's Eve; national celebrations in Belgium, England, France, Italy...
Without being too specific, bluff Mr. Thomas implied that somehow or other he had arranged for the flood of orders which has yet to burst. Then, getting back to England, he outlined a ?42,000,000 ($204,120,000) program of unemployment relief. Straightway this was denounced by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George as "unintelligent, pusillanimous, and ineffective!" At Privy Seal Jim the Welshman jibed, "You-ran away to Canada when you should have been here working out a real solution. I am surprised that the Prime Minister...
...Significance. The U. S. has been called a, country without one original philosophy. But a spirit of no mean origi- nality manifests itself in the three follow-ing life attitudes: 1) New England Puritanism; 2) Negroid Epicureanism, now spreading from rural South to urban North; 3) academic pragmatism (William James, John Dewey) which learns a Western pioneer's and Eastern businessman's view of future and past. In this group belong the Carnegies and Kellers. Optimism affected Businessman Carnegie...
...authorized capital of the new institution will be five hundred million Swiss francs, divided into two hundred thousand shares of equal, nominal value, Subscription of the total authorized capital has been guaranteed in equal parts by central banks in Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy and by banking interests in Japan and the United States. It is therefore apparent that central bank governors will guide the policies of the new institution. It is to be hoped that this factor will safeguard the interests of each of the nations concerned, will prevent the bank from becoming a political organization and will facilitate...