Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Secretary Stimson left to Philippine officials to say was that such a sugar duty would inflame the Islands to fresh demands for independence...
...representative had, moreover, displayed the God-given ungraciousness for which he is famed even in Berlin. A breakdown of the negotiations was per-haps inevitable, but it came suddenly and at a particular moment chiefly because of personal animosity stirred up by the "Iron Man." He himself left the session at which the "break" was said by everyone else to have occurred in his usual frame of mind, remarking: "We have been checked, that is all." Not until the bulls he had red-flagged came snorting forth was the situation realized. In Prussia, heads come square and hard-so much...
Representatives of every nation of any consequence, including the U. S. and Soviet Russia, met in Geneva last fortnight to take up the work of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission where it was left last year (TIME, April 2, 1928). Chairman was a Dutchman, gruff, able, patient Jonkheer J. Loudon. Presently the delegates were asked to express individually their approval or disapproval of the following general principles: 1) Appreciable reduction by all nations of their existing armaments; 2) Acceptance by each nation in proportion to its size of a proportional degree of disarmament; 3) Adoption of a mathematical...
After luncheon "Emperor" Cook and the future King-Emperor shook hands as they left the table, and stood chatting for several minutes...
...second team's runs were scattered with two tallies in the first inning and one each in the second, third and sixth. The game was slow, livened up only by a drive by P. A. Ketchum '31, to deep left field which was good for three bases, and by the brilliant pitching of Davis. E.L. Sims '31 was the second team catcher while the starting battery for the Freshmen was R. B. Harrison '32 and P. E. Gorman...