Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Temps, Paris semi-official daily: "We may be permitted to observe, without a desire of discouraging the good-will affirmed, that the real remedies for the foreign exchange situation lie neither in the domain of repression nor of regulation. Measures of the kind adopted in foreign countries, notably Germany, have given most deplorable results. There is no possibility of hiding the fact that the present movement of the depreciation of the franc began this time from the interior. This is indisputable. There has developed in the last few days among the French public an unjustified panic, causing excessive purchase...
...Scrip, a Royalist journal in Athens, printed photographs of the Ministers who were executed by the Revolutionary Government last year and said: "The living say nothing, but the dead speak. You have returned because your former adversaries are dead. Where are they? They lie under the soil on which you have come to trample again. Your path is darkened by their shadows. Can you close their tombs...
...harmful. The story of the man who made his living by melting silver cups which he had won in tournaments, is merely an exaggerated example. Either tennis should proclaim a complete house-cleaning, and dust the shelves as well as the floor, or else it should let the dust lie still. Luckily the dust is not yet very heavy...
...science of ethics but that there is such a thing as an art of conduct. You cannot make general rules of conduct, for every case has its not to be duplicated features. Human situations are not like the situations of geometry, infinitely repeatable. But the general 'lie of the land in the case of an author may at least be indicated roughly...
...personal view point of Professor Ross might be described as slightly pink. Although he saves his bacon by a frank admission and condemnation of the economic theories and policies of the Soviets, the feelings still remains that his sympathies on the whole lie on the side of Russia and her socialistic experiment as against the wrongs of the expropriated "never-works" and the unveiled hostility of the capitalist countries of the world. There is no denying that the Allies and the United States tremendously misjudged the potentialities of the Soviet Revolution, and that to date their policy towards Russia...