Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Times blamed both sides: "The remedy for the present state of the industry proposed by the owners is longer hours and lower wages and the miners will not hear of either. They have made no proposals of their own and their attitude is purely negative. They simply will not listen to the terms put forward by the owners who decline to offer any others. This means that both sides are marching steadily and deliberately to battle...
...Paris, Premier Painlevé was inclined to listen sympathetically to the rumors of peace which reached him; for Marshal Pétain had told him that victory in Morocco was impossible in less than six months. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand was also pleased at the prospects peaceful; for, with many international problems on his mind, the war in Morocco was an intolerable strain upon him. Finance Minister Joseph Chalaux, last of the triumvirate ruling France, was more relieved than anybody, for every centime spent in Morocco makes balancing his next budget more difficult...
...trouble in China which can be offset only by the unified action of the Powers. The greatest danger is that the Chinese Government, being met with nothing from the Powers (mainly Britain) but chilly demands for justice with indemnities for the Shanghai outrages (TIME, June 15 et seq.), will listen readily to the friendly advances of Moscow. Undoubtedly with this in their minds, the U. S., Britain and Japan agreed to a compromise at Tokyo aimed at calming China, while at Swampscott President Coolidge insisted on a scrupulous observance of the Nine-Power Treaties, the respect for foreign lives...
...studies thoroughly the subjects he attempts-and masters them. For example, he is a master of Rivers and Harbors legislation and of public expenditures. Before he speaks, he learns ; and before he went abroad, he mastered the question of international trade in arms. Then he was required to listen to 43 days of debate and expressions of good intentions. At last there was something to sign-an end of bickering...
Ragged Pecksniffs and old women; gentlemen out for a constitutional; bright-cheeked British children who had run away from their Nannas, paused to stare and listen, moved along, were replaced by others. So all day, in Hyde Park, people came and went, but the voice of Somerville Hague, sculptor, went on forever. Ensconced before Jacob Epstein's Memorial for W. H. Hudson* (TIME, June 1), fortified with a box of assorted sandwiches and mobled in a large ulster, he stated that he did not like Sculptor Epstein's conception of Rima, the wood nymph. "Look...