Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This union will probably never be achieved. It is natural enough that German speaking states should join hands; but the internal forces that prevented agreement for hundreds of years still operate, as post-war history illustrates but too clearly. And then there is France. The key to her whole recent diplomacy is her attempt to ring her former foes around with her own military satellites and to build up these petty states as much as possible. A union of Austria and Germany would certainly strengthen the former and possibly the latter; and French policy demands the weakening of both. Inasmuch...
...affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild? Here is an institution, with an expert faculty, representing every branch of the dramatic art, including the audiences. It is an earnest organization, and it has at heart the improvement of the stage and its patrons. It might have time to join with Harvard in an endeavor to promote the better things. With such an arrangement students, instead of being confined to the amateur classrooms of "English 47," would have large contacts with the world of drama. They would learn not only from scholars but from experience. Miss Helbrun for astute showmanship...
...morally bound to join the Allies in securing payment in case of default? That is a matter of opinion, a matter which the Administration is doubtless willing to let go undecided in the hope that there will be no default, in the meantime justifying its action on the ground that signing the agreement was the only way of getting its money...
...personal noble" (noble for life), later an hereditary nobleman.* In Moscow, before his Bolshevik judges, he said that he had been forced to betray his Nihilist comrades under the inhuman torture to which he was subjected while awaiting execution and, at the price of his freedom, had consented to join the Okrana and work for the Tsar...
...weep no more my lady" over "the unquestionably evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles" upon infant minds. But rather join in that nocturnal and nationally criminal chorus of wicked mothers, who love to sing when "quiet hour" comes, that "Old King Cole was a merry ol' soul," with all its accompanying nonsense, even though we know it to be lovely...