Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criminal nation, President Hoover's declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. What is needed is less laws making us all "criminals...
...approved by all; 2) The date on which the Young Plan was designed to supersede the old Dawes Plan was Sept. 1; 3) All German budgetary arrangements had been made in good faith to pay Reparations on the Young Plan scale which is $132,000,000 less per average year than the Dawes Plan scale; 4) The expert drafters of the Young Plan declared that it represents the utmost practical capacity of Germany to pay; 5) Therefore to expect Germany to go on paying under the Dawes Plan "more than her utmost capacity to pay" would be an intolerable injustice...
Philip Snowden. Stubbornly battling for 100% fulfillment of his demands, pallid, drawn-faced, crippled Chancellor Snowden rejected, day after day. a long series of Franco-Belgian-Italian verbal offers, all claimed by the Latins to give Britain upwards of 80% satisfaction, all denounced by Mr. Snowden as giving less than 20%?a discrepancy accounted for by the fact that each side insisted on computing at different rates of interest the value of the sums involved over 59 years. "I have had the patience of a Job!" exclaimed the Chancellor to British correspondents. "I told this conference on the first...
...judge stood on a sawdust-covered dais. "At other tables," said Correspondent Hunt, "students were drinking pale Pilsener beer, as calmly as if they were about to attend a lecture on philosophy." The duelists faced each other, "formal as bride and groom marching to the altar, but far less nervous." Like disciplined gamecocks they stood, a black scarf about each jugular, a pad about each middle. To make the maiming cleanly, each blade was swabbed with antiseptic...
...again they fell to. The young, less experienced, saw his opponent's blade arch, flicker, fall. Cleanly the sabre skewered his face from nose to mouth. He stood motionless...