Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris was dismayed. Poincaré had lost a friend, said the journals. France was isolated. The proposed economic convention was not unfavorable to Belgium. France was to yield 10% on import duties of 140 articles while Belgium was to yield on only a few articles. But it was felt that the convention would bind Belgium to France as against either England or Germany...
...recital in Brattle Hall. During the past ten years we have often hard that technique is destroying freedom of movement, and that because of it the dance appears to be unnatural and insincere; that study of the historical progress of the dance is necessary; and other ideas of similar import...
...field of imports, it is significant that American factories are becoming dependent upon imported raw materials like rubber or hemp. Foreign foodstuffs like sugar or coffee are also notable items of import...
...special invitation has been extended to members of the University to attend an international conference at which problems of international import connected with peace, disarmament, and progress will be discussed. The sessions will be held in Boston on February...
...newspaper publicity. There are few better examples of the kind of stories which the law produces than this, an account of an incident which culminated last week at Ellis Island: A man of German birth, resident of the U. S. and possessor of his first citizenship papers, decided to import his wife and five children from Germany. They came. The five offspring were admitted as Germans. The mother was denied entrance because she had been born aboard a Dutch ship in the port of Antwerp, and the Dutch quota for 1923-1924 was exhausted. Perforce the mother retired to troubled...