Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic factors underlying the Franco-Belgian action are to be found more in the domestic conditions of the countries concerned rather than in the occupied region. The Ruhr mines are yielding comparatively little coal, and both France and Belgium are forced to import supplies at an enormous cost...
...should be written off, in order to quit fooling ourselves. Let us decide what others of these debtors are good in part, but must be given ample time to pay; emphatically, let us figure whether the payment of these debts--which inevitably must mean a great increase in our import and a heavy decrease in our export trade--is going to prove an asset or a liability for American business...
...ought to be, a fundamental principle of the college. Cortainly that great freedom given the individual, here implies confidence in the good intentions, it implies intelligence to profit by the freedom, which is often enough unjustified; yet where justified the profit is so great that it is of little import what happens to those blinded by various manias...
...little inn is much the same when Beranger, now an old man, wistfully returns to it in the winter of 1848, at the beginning of the third act. The unexpected opening of a cycle in a new generation, of great significance in lending remarkable structural unity and import to the play, and the effective ending given to this drama of an unusually attractive personality, are the impressive features of this last act of "Beranger...
...discussion of the disarmament question will be held at 7.30 o'clock this evening in the club-house, 66 Winthrop street. The club has undertaken this series of meetings with a two-fold purpose: to arouse interest in the various phases of the disarmament question, now of such vital import in this country, in the student body, and to acquaint members of the University, through talks by recognized authorities on the many sides of this question and through well-directed discussion, with the considerations entering into the attitude of the United States on the armament question...