Word: exception
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year of his greatest triumphs was 1933, when he walked away from the otherwise still-born World Economic Conference in London with the embryo of U. S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. The same year he embarked on a series of non-aggression pacts with every Soviet neighbor except Japan. Scared by Adolf Hitler's "if-I-had-the-Ukraine" line of chatter, he played the game of collective security for all it was worth throughout the dictators' aggressions in Ethiopia, Spain, Austria. Last autumn, the Czecho-Slovak crisis found him again at Geneva proposing joint British-French-Russian...
...bring a case before the Beth Din; indeed, it is his duty, if he is bothered about a point of the Law. He pays the court what he can and, as a man of faith, accepts its decisions as binding, † When the Beth Din sits (daily except religious holidays), the rabbis wear prayer shawls...
...which such measures can be avoided; and that is for the House Masters to fulfill the trust which they have abused. The first selection of the Freshman class this week has made it patent that these gentlemen do not feel obliged to follow any precepts in the admissions system except their own opinions and prejudices. If their attitude does not change before the second draft is made this year, it will be necessary to curtail their authority with a system of set criteria...
...official communique, dispatched to Polish envoys in European capitals, said that "independent Polish policy which never has sought anything except defense of its own interests has rejected and will reject any plan of union with one nation against another...
...course, both organizations must consider their budgets, and concerts are not usually successful at Harvard. Except for the singing in the Yard, the Glee Club, however, has performed here only once in the last two years, and that was a joint concert with Yale on the Friday night before the Yale game--not a very good time for drawing an audience...