Word: links
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possibility of a tunnel under the Bering Strait has been brought up again. In speaking before a branch of the American Asiatic Association, Julian Arnold, Commercial Attache of the United States to Peking, advocated the construction of this connecting link between America and Asia,--a step which would make possible a railroad from Chicago to Peking, and eventually from New York to Paris and Berlin, via Nome and Omsk. Should this plan ever be put into effect, the globe-trotter would no longer be forced to endure the hardships of any voyage save that across the Atlantic. The Peterkin family...
...link between the United States and other countries has been made by the establishment of a World Court for the arbitration of trade disputes. Hitherto the only way of setting these disputes has been by legal means fraught with all sorts of trouble, expense, and delay. By this new method all the difficulties rising from differences in language and laws, the great distances involved, and the limitations of communication will be done away with and the disputes settled quickly, economically, and justly...
...authorities along with the proposals originating in the Student Council. With such an arrangement, a given problem would be presented to the Office only once; timorous students would have to disclose their identify only to the sub-committee which could judge as to their sincerity; and a desirable link between the student and the authorities would be established...
This is certainly a splendid idea; stocked with a battery of such speeches, anyone ought to be a leader in his community, as the circular says. And we inevitably link up such inspiring information with the story of Blenkinson J. Smith, commented on in the same paper. This gentleman-whose name, incidentally, reminds us of J. Throckmorton Cush's we leave to the imagination possible similarities implied by both having J. as initial-but, as we were saying, Mr. Smith is reported to have committed in one day more sins than are recorded in a week's series of book...
...merely home-rule, but I believe that independence is inevitable. If India gets home-rule she will then be in a position to take complete freedom whenever she wants it Now, English statesmen know home necessary India is to England in an economic way and as the most important link in the British chain of dominions, and they would therefore govern their policy so as the prevent India from breaking away. In other words, English foreign policy would be controlled by India. For this reason, England will not give home-rule if she can avoid dogie so, and will fight...