Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their fields of study. For the first time, a strong bid for the participation of students in economics has been made in the shape of the committee to discuss economic questions. The chief value of the Assembly, however, is still for the collegian who, while his activities do not lie directly in these fields, possesses an intelligent interest in current affairs of international scope, and for him who desires to acquire some insight into the bases and conditioning forces of contemporary problems without so much consideration of technical points as will make such discussions tiresome or incomprehensible. The technique...
Idealistic proposals of this type have more value as Indications of the prevailing sentiment than as practical measures. The real hope for disarmament at the present time appears to lie in the economic situation, not in speeches which are lost in the rear of the Oriental cannon. No nation can now afford the expense of large scale war construction. That fact may at least induce the Geneva Convention to extend the Washington agreement, and perhaps complete it by securing the adherence of France...
...press agent." as Promoter Fisher called him, set a new attendance record for the races which he has been exploiting ever since. Early in the game "Steve" Hannagan established a reputation among sports writers and editors that stands him in excellent stead today. He was never known to lie or to fake a story...
With little time for writing, "Steve" Hannagan sold a dozen articles to Cosmopolitan last year on such personages as Tunney, Tommy Milton, Johnny Weissmuller, Gar Wood, Bill Tilden, Albie Booth. Last October, aged 30, he married Ruth Ellery of Manhattan. He likes to lie beneath a Panatrope phonograph and whistle in tune with it. The sound of anyone eating an apple before breakfast sends him into a rage. He wishes he could tap dance, has no use for "public relations counsels." Odds, Ends...
...outlook for a general reduction in tariffs, either our own or of other countries, is not bright. The League of Nations has failed to effect even a temporary tariff truce. The best hope appears to lie in the method of reciprocal agreements--either bilateral, as in the case of the recent agreement between Australia and Canada, or possibly multilateral--by which reductions are given in exchange for reductions...