Word: frame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never be extinguished." Mr. Hossain pointed to what has happened in Ireland. "There was a time when England might have quieted Ireland easily," he continued, "when a rational settlement would have been accepted. But a nation, irritated and embittered by centuries of misery and oppression, is not in a frame of mind to agree to a compromise, whether rational...
...produced the overwhelming vote for Harding and Coolidge. There was no definite national referendum upon the clean cut issue of American participation in a League or Association to preserve the peace of the world. Out of the contest in the Senate over the Versailles treaty there developed an intransigent frame of mind in the so-called "bitter enders" which made impossible the advancement of any proposition for "the" or "an" Association or League. This state of mind nearly wrecked the treaties negotiated at the Naval Limitation Conference in the autumn of 1921, particularly the four power Pacific pact, which...
...over which the late Frank I. Cobb (TIME, Dec. 31) presided. He took, too, a spacious office, at the far end of the city room, through the length of which he strides like a hurricane, swinging his cane, and shaking the floor with the weight of his stal- wart frame. Last May, eight months ago, Mr. Swope decided that the Democrats would hold their 1924 Convention in Manhattan. At once the idea became "front page stuff" on the World. The rest of Manhattan smiled, knowing that the home of Tammany and Wall Street was not a convention town. But Swope...
...Yesterday young Sidis was wearing a cheap brown suit, much too tight for his fleshy frame. He had not been shaved; his reddish mustache was a ragged fringe that appeared to have been whacked off with a pair of manicure scissors. His mop of mouse-colored hair was in need of trimming. His necktie was in a hard knot that did not come within inches of his collar...
Harvard will be in a fit frame of mind against Princeton next Saturday, for last night at the Arena the team fought the Maple A. A. to a 1 to 1 tie which even two overtime periods failed to break...