Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britons roughly figure the full amount of Italy's debt to them at 580 million pounds ($2,818,800,000) ; and considering that Britain is paying a total of $92,310,000 a year to the U. S., with nothing definitely in sight from France, Mr. Churchill undoubtedly felt impelled to mete out the heaviest practicable terms to Italy. Count Volpi, on the other hand, could point to the fact that the U. S. Debt Commissioners have granted proportionately much easier terms to Italy (TIME, Nov. 23) than those which they have thus far demanded from France. Count Volpi...
...have secured a satisfactory long-term agreement which would prevent further strikes. But the definition of a "satisfactory long-term agreement" was the sticking point. The operators wanted something that would last perhaps ten years, and realizing the futility of trying to fix wages for so long a period, felt it necessary to include a provision for periodic adjustment of wagesate resort in case negotiation failed. Right there was the centre of the disagreement. The miners demanded concessions. The operators would have been willing to grant most of these concessions, provided they could get arbitration for the future...
...supply a long-felt need and at the same time to relieve the Office of the Secretary to the University for Information of the burden of answering miscellaneous questions, the General University Information Office has been reorganized, its office in the south end of University Hall redecorated, and a new man, who has had several years experience as messenger and stenographer in the College administration buildings, has been placed in charge. The new institution is under the direction of J. W. D. Seymour '17. Secretary of the Committee for Information...
Last week Dr. Lewis addressed to U. S. boys who think of going to college a personal questionnaire, not to be answered in writing but in unspoken privacy. A few items that he felt should be on every sub-freshman's college entrance self-examination paper...
Wilson. "The Western Powers scornfully reproached Mr. Wilson with being misled by German evasions . . . [Germans] looked upon him as a pawn of the English. . . . As neophyte in the highest office in the Republic, he made obvious mistakes. . . . But it must be remembered that he felt and thought-not only spoke-as no other government head had done before...