Word: existed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Military Governor of the Free State. Signer Attilio Depoli, ex-head of the Fiumian Government, said, in his note to the Italian Government announcing his resignation, that " Fiume had hoped the Genoa Conference would arrange a settlement of the situation under which Flume's desire to be allowed to exist as an Italian city would be recognized." He continued that Fiumian aspirations had been thwarted by the Santa Margherita Convention and that the long delay in settling the status of Fiume and the consequent interference with political parties and city officials had combined to make his position intolerable...
...obtained to maintain the quota." General Pershing then discussed the value of R. O. T. C. training to the college and the individual saying. "It is considered by educators as a very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges and academies where these units exist. There is another feature which I consider also of foremost importance and that is the training of individuals themselves. There is nothing better for a young man as to physical development than the practical experience of daily work in the R. O. T. C." Commenting on the fact that many of the larger...
...League of Nations remain only a hope at best, there may be some excuse for active preparedness in Europe, however much such preparedness may act as an incentive to war. But with the United States situated as it is, it is difficult to see how any similar excuse can exist in this country. Geographically we are free from any sudden attack; according to present indications we are not likely to throw ourselves at the first opportunity into possible European conflicts; while if preparedness is needed for imperialistic reasons in the Caribbean or in South America, it has not even...
...considered seasonally variable. Studies by the Indian Plague Commission and the U. S. Bureau of Entomology have led to the conclusion that the adult flea does not usually live through the Winter in cool climates. The species is prevented from dying out by the ability of the larvae to exist for long periods in a sort of hibernation. Dr. Robertson advocates a flea survey of the cities of the Atlantic Coast to verify the details of the life cycle of Bacillus pestis, the causative organism. If fleas are relatively abundant on rats at all seasons of the year in this...
...Foster Kent, of Yale, collaborating with Henry A. Sherman, head of publisher Scribner's religious literature department, recently brought out a Children's Bible. This was severely attacked by Professor William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, who parodied Hamlet's soliloquy as follows: "I wonder whether or not I shall exist after death. Is it better to stick around a little longer or to try to win out by suicide ?" However, the Kent-Sherman Bible is considered the best in the children's field...