Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Inquiry to be held to establish the exact responsibility for the murder of the Italian delegation for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian frontier. The committee of inquiry to be composed of one Italian, one French and one British member with Japanese President...
...mountains are raised in the course of a few million years, a comparatively short time geologically speaking. From time to time under the huge stresses which fold and warp rocks, the strain becomes too great in the earth's crust, something gives way and the whole earth shakes. No exact, scientific explanation of these movements has been reached. But it is known that the present is one of the greatest mountain making periods in the earth's history...
...Greece has gone to London to raise a loan. Greece made application for help from the League of Nations, which, after examining the proposals and plans for the settlement of Greek refugees, stated that the guarantees offered by the Greek Government were sufficient for raising a loan. The exact amount to be borrowed is not known, but will probably be between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 pounds sterling...
...things just when the public was eager to read them, did not end there, however. Just before the President died Mrs. Harding was reading to him, and she was reading from Mr. Blythe's article. There are various accounts of the President's last utterance, disagreeing as to the exact words, but agreeing in substance. One account had it that he said: "That's good, go on;" another that he said: "It was fine of Sam to say that...
...Majority Socialists, Independent Socialists, Social Democrats, are an uncertain quantity. In view of the terrible economic condition of the country, it seems likely that large portions of the Majority Socialists and the Social Democrats could be brought to back a monarchist coup. Although this is not an exact indication of monarchical strength in Germany, it is a sound enough basis from which to show that the activities of the ex-Crown Prince Wieringen at are not without significance...