Word: europeanizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canada has secured recognition of her autonomous status through the League. Canada is now a member of the Council. In that case, the Canadian representative has to vote on many intricate European questions. He votes as representative of Canada which means that he is the voice of the Canadian government and that the government must make decisions on all international questions. This has caused a very marked reaction in the House of Commons where they now have frequent debates on international matters...
Sidney Bradshaw Fay '96, professor of European History at Smith College, will assume a position at Harvard next fall, it was learned yesterday. He will lecture at Harvard and Radcliffe on his special fields of nineteenth and twentieth Century European history. His title and the names of the courses which he will give could not be ascertained...
...there are no facilities for being lazy, and laziness is fully as important as diligence, in its proper place. It's nice to sit in a cafe. It's comfortable. The go-getter stops panting. The world resumes its normal shape. You know, I like the way European cities take care of their people. The large parks, the wide boulevards, the sidewalk cafes! Say, it's nice to sit in a cafe and have something. If Prohibition hadn't interfered, California would be the greatest grape-growing region in the world, making better wines than France...
Doubtless he did this as automatically as a parson citing one of the Ten Commandments, and with as little expectation of being challenged. Lord Balfour laid down the astute principle that Great Britain will not exact a penny more from her European debtors than is exacted from her by the U. S. These unctuous words have enabled Honest John Bull to pass the blame for collecting War debts on to Uncle Shylock Sam. Without the Balfour Note, both France and Italy to-day might well be on hostile instead of friendly terms with Britain. Therefore, almost everyone in the House...
...Japanese shrinkage, decline in tin prices for the British. Paper (newsprint) and copper were the Canadian products that chiefly swelled Canada's income. General was the decline in U. S. imports from Europe and Asia; general was the increase from South America. Germany showed the only major European increase, selling potash, sulphate of ammonia, hides, gloves and sulphite pulp in large quantities. Greece and Italy suffered from a decline in tobacco imports, France from decreases in silk and olive oil. The rise in coffee imports assured increased purchases from Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela, the two last also adding...