Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dispatch to the London Times from Constantinople says: The representatives of the powers have interviewed Said Pasha, minister of foreign affairs, on the subject of the conference. He unequivocally and categorically refused to assent to the conference, on the ground that it was unnecessary and inconsistent with the interests of Turkey...
...annual meeting of the Vienna Imperial Academy of Science, on May 25, Sir Henry Rawlinson was elected a foreign honorary member in place of the late Mr. Darwin...
...constantly increasing necessity of a practical knowledge of modern languages is now fully appreciated by the authorities of Columbia College. Ability to deal in person with the people of foreign tongues has become even a requirement for success in a country so cosmopolitan as the United States, whose financial markets, whose learned professions, and whose general society is influenced and even controlled by an ever-enlarging element of foreigners. A recent writer in the New York Post says in regard to some salutary changes in the curriculum of modern languages at Columbia...
...stated that the Porte has sent a circular to the powers, protesting against the dispatch of foreign men-of-war to Egypt as unjustifiable, and declaring, moreover, that, were such action necessary, it would devolve upon the Sultan as sovereign of Egypt...
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, was further examined by the foreign affairs committee yesterday, in his relations with the Peruvian Company. The examination was devoid of interest...