Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main facts of the situation seem to be that Cuba's railway troubles are caused by the Island's attenuated shape. It is cheaper for sugar companies to build a short road to the coast and put their sugar directly aboard ship than to patronize the " public" railways which run lengthwise of tile country, whose freight rates are expensive and whose service is inadequate. The Tarafa bill would improve the railways at the expense of the Cuban sugar industry. As Colonel Tarafa himself pointed out, Americans are about equally heavily interested in both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said...
...Peter Whiffle, Carl Van Vechten was chiefly known as a cosmopolitan whose main interests were music and cats. Previous appearances in print include The Tiger in the House, Interpreters, Music and Bad Manners and the inimitable Peter Whiffle...
...custom of "adoption" is an honor invented by the Bolsheviki to replace the Tsarist method of making distinguished persons honorary officers in the Navy or Army. The main difference in the Bolshevik idea is that Government departments adopt a regiment or a warship. The Foreign Office recently adopted a regiment, but M. Georges Tchicherin (Foreign Minister) did not become a colonel; he became an honorary private...
...virtuosity. He is Stephen Gosson, the architect who designed the sets. The costumer, one William Israel, is but a step behind him. Between them, with the help of a good director and a few thousand broadswords, they have constructed a thing of permanent beauty. Gothic architecture is, in the main, their medium; their background, the flashing pageantry of 16th Century France. So painstaking is their detail, so accurate their reproduction, so beautiful their finished product, that the French Chamber of Deputies has requested a copy of the film for the historical archives of the Carnavalet Museum, Paris...
...crops is immense. The Department of Agriculture is organizing control measures of two kinds: rigid quarantine by inspection of crop shipments; importation of five varieties of harmless insects which are the beetle's enemies. This marshaling of one species against another by human direction will be perhaps the main tactical principle in the coming war between insects...