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General Thesis. Mrs. Willebrandt believes that: 1) Prohibition is not effectively enforced; 2) Prohibition can be effectively enforced; 3) Imperfect as it is, Prohibition has materially lessened liquor...
...method allotted two scholarships (once every three years) to every state regardless of population or educational facilities. Since not all states regularly produce Oxford-worthy candidates, this plan occasionally resulted in the selection of imperfect U. S. specimens...
...heard that there were blood tests to decide putative paternality. Her information was imperfect. There are four kinds of human blood, called in medicine Groups I, II, III, IV. Only if a child's blood differs from that of both its parents', is it probable that the man is not the father, and possible that the woman is not the mother. Resemblances cannot be conclusive...
...Hungary at Budapest in 1921 from which the new frontiers of mutilated Hungary were omitted. This shows that the United States was the first power to discover that, as Professor Langer points out, "in the peace settlements of 1919 the principle of national self-determination was applied in an imperfect way to the problem of territorial readjustment and in view of the vaguenes of national frontiers a settlement of entirely satisfactory character was out of the question" and further that "the great weakness of the peace settlement was not that it had not solved this question but that...
...most of the states which possessed minorities. The Hapsburg Empire disappeared entirely, while Germany and Russia lost large areas on their frontiers and the Turk was all but driven out of Europe. In the peace settlements of 1919 the principle of national self-determination was applied in an imperfect way to the problem of territorial readjustment. In view of the vagueness of national frontiers a settlement of entirely satisfactory character was out of the question. Clearly defined national frontiers could have been established only if the principle of deportation or exchange of populations had been applied. The idea...