Word: extention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Building up a library in two decades is far from easy, especially when it is dependent to a large extent on selecting it from the flood of contemporary material. To those men who have been connected with this work during the library's life both Harvard University and American business owe a deep debt of gratitude...
...Geneva Protocol (intended to "put teeth into the Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle in the air and the Assembly of the League is going to build up the foundations to support this castle. . . . The British Government is desirous that that pact shall be not only a declaration on paper but shall be translated into constitutions and institutions that...
...received wires from their six Denver correspondents asking them to put the $500,000 to the Bank of Telluride's credit. So, since the Bank of Telluride was Chase's correspondent, and the man with the drafts was readily identified as Telluride's President Waggoner, his drafts to the extent of $495,000 were quickly honored. Thus the man from Colorado had in his possession nearly a half-million dollars in the form of paper bearing the Chase certification...
Personality. Physique, dress, manners, quality of voice, choice of language and characteristic social relations all go to make your personality. But they are useful only to the extent to which they affect the people you come in touch with. Thus decided Yale's Mark Arthur May, trying to develop a scale to measure personality. Zero would be a person who does not count for anything to anyone. High grade would be he whose presence or absence has the greatest influence on others...
...needed and fail their purpose. Too many laws today make "criminals" out of unoffensive citizens. Under our present system the most law-abiding citizen breaks on the average of 20 laws, and ordinances, each and every 24 hours. Over-crowding of prisons in U. S. is due to large extent to persons being made "criminals" by law, without possessing criminal intents and propensities...