Word: foment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal permitting any Government to ship arms to any other Government was passed. Britain thereupon introduced an amendment giving Governments the right to search ships suspected of carrying arms designed to foment trouble against them, citing the case of India where arms-smuggling was the cause of constant strife on the Northwest Frontier. The amendment was badly received and discussion was adjourned...
...Egypt. Declaring that Khedive Abbas Hilmy Pasha, dethroned ruler of Egypt, was seeking to foment trouble in the country, the Egyptian Government massed-troops at various Egyptian ports. Widespread uneasiness ensued...
Expressing Willie. Willie, 40-year-old bachelor, has made so much money out of toothpaste that he has leisure to discover he has a soul which also needs polishing. At his Long Island home radiant male and female butterflies foment his yearnings, having ideals to exchange for free board and lodging. Willie's old- fashioned mother sets them all down as parasites and summons Willie's boyhood sweetheart from the Middle West in the hope of once more striking a responsive chord...
...subject in our instructing staff. In spite of outcries for their dismissal, from alumni and others. Professor Munsterberg and Mr. Lashi were unflinchingly maintained in their positions. Throughout all trials Harvard has stood, and will stand, for the fullest academic freedom. Since the outbreak of the war and the foment of opinions that it caused, few institutions of learning have had so clear a record in maintaining this principle, and none could have a clearer one for it has been without flaw...
With the conditions of labor unrest no more advanced today than they were at this time last year, and with the country becoming more involved with each new twist which the tide of industrial foment takes, careful analysis of the root of our inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling...