Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Urbanites. Ostensibly they are the intellectuals of Bulgaria who have rallied to the standard of Professor Zankoff in Sofia, now their premier. But the most strident, if not the most numerous, ingredient of this conglomerate mass is the old pro-German, anti-Serbian group. And in this group lie germs of further Balkan troubles. The states which have hitherto been able to keep on good terms with Agrarian Bulgaria, and especially Serbia, will not look with pleasure on the advent of another party of such different standards; and it has been well proved in the past that Western Europe...
Garvey was the leader of this movement; he possessed great ambition; at the height of his power his organization (The International Negro Improvement Association) numbered 4,000,000 members; lie was President of the Black Star Line Company, which aimed to run ships to Africa and the West Indies from America; his career led him to great power, which he preferred to exercise for his own aggrandizement, and thus defrauded and discredited the legitimate activities of the people he pretended to serve...
...there, but the Palace is a more important theatre, for it is the high peak of an avenue of art that radiates over the whole world, while opera is a narrow, limited, circumscribed old patch, like one of the Balkan States-it's great .to write about and lie about but it doesn't affect anything much...
...policy and because of the war-weariness of other nations, the Turks have extracted concession after concession until national goats have about reached the end of their tethers. If Turkey has recognized this fact, the conference may be able to sail quickly and safely through the reefs which still lie before it in the Ottoman debt and the status of foreigners in Turkey...
Thus, whether figures lie or not, they can be used to refute their own compilers. Education is of some help even to the brainless; and, of those of which "one is born every minute", there are a few who may profit by the wisdom of their teachers...