Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treaty. Frequent discussion has made the main terms of the treaty familiar enough?by it the signatory powers "condemn recourse to war" and "renounce it as an instrument of national policy." They agree also to settle disputes "by pacific means." Furthermore, as Senator Borah stated last week, as Secretary Kellogg has previously said before the Foreign Relations Committee, the treaty should not be regarded as affecting in any manner the right of any signatory to go to war in what it considers self-defense...
...turn out, moreover, that abnormal psychology will contribute to the cultural life of the university in yet another way. It may be the key to the cerebral lock of some individuals whose intellectual potentialities can be opened by no other instrument. It is a matter of common observation that, although there are some students who come to college with an enlightened zest for intellectual pursuits and others who will be forever incapable of such experiences, there are many, not without potentialities, who go through the university unscorched by the cultural torch...
President Coolidge wants to crown his career by having the Senate ratify the Kellogg-Briand Treaty for renouncing-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy...
...Bolivian army still wears the old colorful uniform of the Prussian army. General Hanskundt in 1911 reformed the Bolivian army. Today our Junkers flyers are instructors of the Bolivians. Junkers airplanes are flying over primeval forests and are a most effective instrument of combat due to a lack of roads. German business men and technicians are as welcome in Bolivia as German teachers. The German school founded in La Paz in 1924, now numbers 300 students. Just because Germans had such an active part in the growth of Bolivia we may wish Bolivia a speedy peaceful consolidation of her boundaries...
...which has been the chief instrument of his profession, mingles in just the right quantities, elements of deference and cordiality. Many people the world around know of Oscar; many pretend they know him; a great many actually have come to know him during the 35 years he has been with the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...