Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counteract German influence. France leans to Spain and Italy to Poland. Meanwhile Germany, chafing at the delay in obtaining the coveted seat, sends word that she will not join the League at all, if nations not concerned in the Locarno treaty, are to be admitted to the council on equal terms with...
...power during the nineteenth century. This arrangement has never been very satisfactory, but neither is increasing indefinitely the size of the council a feasible plan. Abolishment of the council altogether is a step which has not been contemplated. Yet such a plan, by placing the members upon an equal footing, would free the Assembly from the dominance of a few large nations, and give the League that universal character, which it has lacked under the present status...
...Houdini was equal to the occasion: "You're not a medium, and anyhow you ought to know what's in the telegram, you sent...
...recent edition of the Boston Traveller--to use the style affected by my friends in the next column--Lillian does her stuff, to the extent of one story, "The Eternal Triangle". And it is really worth mentioning, worth even more than mentioning. For Lillian's muse is equal the fiddling flair of Maine's minstrel of the bobbed haired wife. It prefaces a return to the casual in contemporary letters and, more than that, reminds me of the Marks' remark about the Revere Beach of yesterday, the Coney Island of today...
...Crimson scores came at the beginning and very end of the game; during the intervening time, the rival defenses were more than equal to the pressure that the forward lines could apply...