Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale, however, occupies a unique position because of its past two decades of departmentalization and the broadening of its group system. These two movements have tended to scatter the student units and at the present moment there is great fear of a loss of vital "organic unity". And finally comes the over-population of the college which is not only unfavourable to social values but which makes it impossible for the university to attempt freer and more generous educational experimentation. Briefly, this is the problem which has since 1914, when the creation of a Third College to stand parallel with...
...Austria-Hungary. Prior to the War he was, among Czechs & Slovaks at Prague in Austria-Hungary, only a professor, only a deputy. Yet a lionheartedness was in him, and perhaps a serpentine wisdom. By sheer, imperious leadership he welded friends, then students, then political adherents into an orderly group. It stood ready to follow and acknowledge his supremacy when the War brought an opportunity to strike for Czechoslovak freedom. As to just how this vital group was formed Professor Masaryk is regrettably a trifle reticent. He barely mentions by their last names a few of the men who aided...
Fascismo has its extreme right wing, a group of zealots called "The Savages" in Italian argot. Last fortnight one of these bravos, Signor Mario Carli, set forth in his newspaper, L'Impero, certain maxims...
...Sindbadic journey. Between Croyden, which he had left three weeks ago without fuss, flurry or publicity, and Rome there was bad fog. He was glad to get beyond Rome. "After that for a long time I seem to remember nothing but endless stretches of desert. Once I sighted a group of Arab tents with tethered camels. A whole day I was lost in Libya and as I was trying to clear a space in the desert for a take off, a party of Arabs cantered up. It was an anxious moment. There were friendly overtures on my part and then...
Secretary Kellogg's plan is to draw up a group of similar treaties with Japan, outlawing every kind of war, making the United States a kind of radial centre of world peace. France has declined to enter upon any such agreement, and is confident that the other great powers will be equally unwilling to agree on a pact which would so openly flout Article X of the League of Nations. This article guarantees that the territorial integrity and political independence of member states is to be preserved against external aggression. France has other objections in her Locarno security pledges...