Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what can Harvard students do for peace? In the first place we want to know what we're talking about, what we mean by familiar terms (such as "sanctions"), what some of the economic and psychological factors in the subject are, and so forth. Study groups are tackling the problems of the League of Nations, the World Court, and America's neutrality policy; this year with the advantage of assistance from faculty members and outside authorities. The society will likewise sponsor, from time to time, talks by well-known speakers on specific questions of peace and war. And finally...
...Publisher Knox stands for social, justice and collective bargaining, but not as the New Deal understands them. What does that mean? Every ward-heeler who has ever run for office has campaigned for the Rights of Man: not until the Roosevelt years have such banalities become meaningful, articulate...
This last proved too much for Great Britain's Prime Minister during the Great War, hoary David Lloyd George. Cried he: "Can anyone recall since the Great War a more sinister moment than now? So, if there is a 'lull,' it must mean that this Government has given guarantee: The Foreign Secretary shakes his head but if he says that no guarantees have been given by the Government to Italy, then I cannot understand what the Prime Minister meant by his amazing reference to 'the lull.'" Since for electioneering purposes His Majesty's Government...
Remarking that his Church's prohibition of tobacco, alcohol, tea and coffee is only ''advisory." Mormon Young said: "I've been on binges, of course, and smoked and done things like that, but that doesn't mean damnation...
Despite all his violence and crafty disregard of the desires of others, "Old Jules" had a single-mindedness and tenacity quietly heroic in character. He wanted to make the barren land produce, and his struggles with nature and with his enemies were all directed to that end. He was mean, shrewd, impulsive, attractive only in his devotion to his land and the orchards he eventually established. In a life that had been stripped to the bone his qualities were essential, or the homestead and his ambitions would have been lost to the cattlemen, the landgrabbers, or the sands that swept...