Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the benign Secretary of State, at the instance of the hearty Vice President, intervened to check the hand of fate. Eddie's term was extended two years...
...proposed five-power pact was that Britain would consider as a casus belli any violation of that pact. This, they argued, was accepting British protection and surrendering French continental supremacy. On the other hand, they were cynical of making any paper agreement with Germany, pointing to the fate of the Treaty of London guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium. After making the reservations that Germany must become a member of the League of Nations, must make a satisfactory settlement regarding the infringements of the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty, must guarantee Poland's borders, France...
...history of language requirements at Harvard tends to show that the requirement of a language usually insures its unpopularity. Though French and German A have passed quietly and serenely enough off the required list, such has not always been the fate of required languages. One of the most curious stories in Harvard's history is the dismissal of the entire Sophomore class in 1834 resulting in part from dissatisfaction with the required Greek course...
Interwoven in this uneven melodrama is the suggestion, to be expected, of men being the sport of hidden strings of fate and passion. But sometimes, as in the actual marionette show put upon the stage, the strings are made too evident by the dramatist. Effects of huge shadows and splashes of vivid color sometimes divert attention from the fact that the characters themselves are pulled about in jerks. Miriam Hopkins, erstwhile of musical comedy, and Fredric March as the lover have several plangent scenes together, and C. Henry Gordon pitches about energetically as the husband. But the trail...
...Provinces of Tarapaca, Tacna and Arica, were seized by Chile in the Chile-Peruvian War. According to the Treaty of Ancon (1883, ratified 1884), which ended the war, the fate of the latter two Provinces was to be decided in 1894 by a plebiscite, after they had been under Chilean authority for ten years. If the Provinces reverted to Peru, the latter was to pay Chile $5,000,000; if the plebiscite favored Chile then Chile's right to the Provinces was to be considered absolute...