Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hermann Müller, would have to vote "Nein!" while his Defense Minister, Nationalist General Wilhelm Groener, would vote "Ja!" Portentously an awful rumor spread that President von Hindenburg was threatening to resign if the Reichstag went "Nein!" Old Paul von Hindenburg wanted a hearty "Ja!" because that would mean the appropriation of 85,000,000 gold marks ($20,000,000) to complete Cruiser A, the first warboat of 10,000 tons maximum size which Germany is permitted to build under the Treaty of Versailles. Fierce opposition to the measure came from the largest German party, Socialist, which is unalterably...
...President Coolidge had written to British Ambassador Houghton: "I need not tell you how much I shall feel the loss of your services" (TIME, Nov. 12). But that it seemed did not mean that the President accepted the Ambassador's resignation. He was merely acknowledging its receipt. Last week, having failed of election to the Senate from New York and conferred with the President at the White House, Ambassador Houghton announced that he was returning to the Court of St. James...
Michigan's chief prohibiter, the Rev. R. N. Holsaple, wrote Mr. Raskob a letter. Did Mr. Raskob mean that he & friends would now comply with the spirit-of-the-law and abstain from liquor...
...point of scores, but when one stops to consider that the Crusaders' line has outplayed all of its opponents, and that numerous injuries have kept many of the best players on the side lines for varying periods, he realizes that the Crimson is confronted with a task of no mean proportions. And this is more particularly true in as much as the Harvard weakness overhead is the fort of the invaders. Always a clever group of players, this year's Holy Cross contingent is no exception, and an opportunity for the much needed practice in blocking passes will most certainly...
...Morison points to the disciplinary duties of the small college within Oxford as its most prominent function. Discipline is a word uncongenial to Harvard ears; surely no plan of subdivision here whatever might be its direction could be intended toward the extension of discipline. If discipline be taken to mean guidance as well as coercion, however, this assumption becomes much less sure. The new Harvard plan of House residence with its provision for constant and close contact between tutor and student can scarcely fall to produce the type of discipline which Professor Morison describes as characteristic of Oxford...