Word: faits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them by further antagonism. It seems a pity that a break in athletic relations, no matter how minor, should occur between these two institutions now. Princeton can well testify to the unsatisfactory and inconclusive nature of this method of solution. On the other hand, abuse and impatience over a fait accompli brings the problem no nearer to a satisfactory conclusion...
...government attorneys, and decided there. However, some protection of private property has been granted for the mean-time by Judge Grubb, before impetuous governmental authority completely crushed it. As has been demonstrated in the recent Gold Clause decisions, it is extremely difficult to decide a case negatively after a "fait accompli...
Toward 4 a. m. things began popping in the uncarpeted downstairs bedroom where Elzire Dionne lay. "Ça me fait mal," she wept. Ovila Dionne surmised that his wife was complaining about the swelling of her legs. But the goodwives knew that Elzire Dionne was on the verge of bearing her seventh child, perhaps twins. They dispatched Ovila down the rocky, forest-edged road to Dr. Dafoe's, placed kettles and pots of water to boil, laid out clean towels and a bottle of olive oil on the new bedroom bureau, lined a wicker clothesbasket with pads and sheets...
...well as France are involved in the coming conference which will revise the Washington naval treaty. Concerning this, Japan has just politely indicated that she does not care to have the Chinese question on the agenda. Her recent demarche would indicate that she intends to treat it as a fait accompli. France, like the other powers, is not without Chinese interests, in Yunnan, as well as in Indo-China, and any undue increase in Japanese influence could only cause in Japanese influence could only cause uneasiness at the Quai d'Orsay...
...Anthony Adverse" which is still the country's best-seller, to autograph the House Library's copy, and it would also be a courteous gesture. But, is and beheld, there was no copy to be found. The thing went along for a while and the House Committee confidently fait that some generous member of the House would make the contribution...