Word: keys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon session opened promptly one hour and twelve minutes late. Mr. Cummings was again introduced and read the platform or rather he began to read it, was relieved by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, who in turn was relieved by a reading clerk...
...comparison of English Art with itself. Particularly, a comparison of the immediate predecessors of our generation is illuminating, for men like Watts, Landseer and Edward Burne-Jones are here. It is only mildly entertaining to note the increased intensity of color in Canadian painting, more like our own in key, and the distressing effect of occidentalism on Indian...
...African lands, develop better means of communication and begin the exploitation of the Dark Continent's natural resources on an expanded scale. The swift development of Africa's virgin resources promises the shortest cut to restoring natural wealth and prosperity, and reducing the huge War debts. The key to the process lies in communication and transportation. The British apparently expect to open up the continent from north to south by the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad and its feeder lines, while the French have established lines of communication by tractor across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuctoo...
These lines of Boddoes' strike the key-note of the Masefield anthology of sea-verse, "A Sailor's Geuland," which is to be reissued this week-by Macmillan...
This realism, amounting in the case of rulers at least to pessimism certainly has its disadvantages internally, it can hardly result in mutual confidence and loyalty, and "distrust" might be called the key to Italian history. Almost as truly might "sentiment" be called the key to English and American history. One must remember that appearances are deceiving. If one wants proof, one should turn not to the things which a nation says of itself--but to the reasoning with which its politicians away the populace or to the philosophy of its great men. One finds such contrasts as Lincoln...