Word: footholds
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...League of Nations under which Australia is given control of all former German possessions lying south of the equator adds to our responsibility in the greatest of the world's oceans. America's destiny, too, is largely wrapped up in the Pacific and in the Orient. She has her foothold in Hawali, Samoa and the Philippines. She can not lay down her white man's burden in this quarter of the globe without leaving chaos behind and without inviting the occupation of these lands by perhaps another power. These Pacific possessions are the outer defense of the American western coast...
Thus the question of Pan-Germanism, while not submitted to an official plebiscite, was, nevertheless, practically decided so far as Austria is concerned; the Pan-German leaders failed to gain a foothold in the elections. Had they won, they would have taken their victory as carte blanche approval of the Austrian people. But they have lost, and so decisively as to render any official action on the question--even of a plebiscite--unnecessary and highly improbable...
...treaty plank as it now stands is a disappointment. Its strategic value may be great, but even greater would have been the advantages of a "mild reservationist" stand which would have given the opposing party little foothold from which to raise the League as a campaign issue. It would seem that Elihu Root has said nothing at all as only that keen legal mind could have said...
...time the Eagles thought they had a permanent foothold on the lead, the Crimson came storming back...
Aviation has been out adrift as it was struggling to gain a foothold in peacetime industrial affairs. Competent authorities say that the industry is 90 per cent, liquidated, and that the remaining 10 per cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South...