Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of State Hughes opened the meeting with an address on International Cooperation. Later, the members went to the White House to be addressed by the President. But the main business was the meeting of the several sections, devoted to their respective subjects, before which papers were read. The succeeding paragraphs give a brief resume of the substance of some of the more important subjects treated .-followed by the name of the man who contributed the paper...
Whatever the result, the contest is sure to be bitter and perhaps violent. Not only is the main issue centred about cooperating with the British, but the future of the Egyptian monarchy itself depends upon a victory for Ziwar's coalition; for King Fuad, by paving the way for the acceptance of the British demands by appointing Ziwar Pasha Premier, has incurred much enmity in Nationalist (Zaghlulist) circles...
...main reasons why the American university system is not going the right way to produce men of genius in art and philosophy, pure science and literature, is because diversity of character is not encouraged but suppressed; for genius is the flower of exceptional diversity. Let me explain how this suppression is brought about...
...main things that scientists hope to learn from lay observations are the exact borders of the totality belt and the times of the arriving of the total shadow and its departure, to the nearest second. These will help to improve knowledge as to the exact path of the moon...
...straps and buckles. Above is a small container of canvas duck in which the great silken fabric, of 24-ft. diameter when open, is cleverly packed. A "pilot chute" -an umbrella-like contrivance with spring release-rushes easily out of the container, catches the wind and hauls the main chute out in a second or so. The great supporting surface opens up in an instant. Carefully arranged silk shrouds, made of Japanese silk (the strongest and lightest of textiles) pass continuously from a ring on one side of the harness to the parachute itself and back to the harness again...