Word: even
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that any diplomats she may send into Britain will eschew Red propaganda. The British Liberals also insist on some sort of engagement that Soviet Russia will repay British holders of Imperial Russian bonds at least in part. Last week as Mr. Henderson sat down to chat with Comrade Dovgalevsky even professed optimists doubted whether Moscow would yield now on two points which she has so long refused to concede. Still it was a great, significant event that, with small Norway's help, the two largest countries on the globe last week got back on speaking terms...
...with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they must be caught and securely tied in the bottom of the boat before the cygnets can be nicked. To a Swanherd a male swan is not a cock swan, or a drake swan, or even a bull swan: he is a "cob." The female is a "pen." Swift examination shows which is the cob, which the pen. Then the Swanmasters, with pecked fingers (and sometimes with pecked noses) divide the young. If a royal cob should be found married to a Dyers...
Idle would be any suggestion that Great Man Raymond Poincaré has not made great mistakes, but his constructive achievements have been so great that history will excuse even his colossal blunder of trying to squeeze reparations out of Germany by sending French troops to occupy the Ruhr (TIME, March...
...feverish were New York crowds to see the Bremen during the four days she was in port that even the 70,000 passes which the North German Lloyd issued were not enough. Thousands of pink pier passes were forged, sold to Brooklyn crowds for $1 each...
Diplomatic pressure from the Great Powers mobilized by U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, last week virtually imposed peace between Nationalist China and Soviet Russia. Dictator-Governor Chang Hsueh-liang of Manchuria, commander of China's first line of defense, even found leisure to pose and talk pidgin English for U. S. Movietone minions...