Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the latter campaign, which ended in 1898, an Anglo-Egyptian condominium to rule the Sudan was established. Britain declared at the time, and has never deviated from her contention, that the Sudan, "having been reconquered by joint military and financial efforts of Great Britain and Egypt, claims by right of conquest to share in the legislation and administration of the country." That is why the Sudan is known today as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
...sympathy during our time of struggle." There has been a U. S. offer to defray all expenses but both the English and Italian committees prefer that these be met by spontaneous contribution from rich and poor alike of the two countries principally concerned. The marble will be the joint gift of the owners of the quarries. Although the project calls for a statue that will be the most colossal ever carved of marble, the dominant characteristic of the monument is to be dignity and rough-hewn simplicity. The work should be completed within three years...
...Independents: "One of the greatest exhibitions of an instinct to be good divorced completely from the obligation to be intelligent lies in the tendency of those unripe in American politics to worship mere independence. I confess that I have found that independence is a bad way to get joint action of any kind in real motion. Usually when two independents rally around the banner of independence it results in two banners of independence and then four and then eight. No man or woman in the world is so independent as an independent. As political workers they are usually fanatically unselfish...
...plan for a Pan-American railroad is not new. Yet the appointment of a committee composed of representatives of South, Central and North American countries, at their joint meetings held in the Pan-American Union Building in Washington, have lent renewed interest to a project often dreamed of. The desire is to provide through railroad facilities from Manhattan to Buenos Aires-a distance of about 10,000 miles. About 7,000 miles of the route is already built, including the line from Manhattan to Guatemala. Most of the existing gaps which must be filled to complete the route...
...minority is too weak to defend you, even on the basis of a harmless, but necessary, educational exhibit. It can not now defend itself. The times, and possibly the world and sun also, are out of joint...