Word: ment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur Ponsonby, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, wrote that the Govern-ment had no intention of ceding Jamaica or any other British possession...
...Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, denied that, in appointing a committee to reconsider the British national debt, the Govern-ment had any intention of altering the Anglo-American debt funding settlement...
...past invariably have to pick them up again. "I can see no hope in India," he said, "if it becomes the arena of a struggle between constitutionalism, and revolution. No party in Great Britain will be cowed by threats of force or by policies designed to bring govern-ment to a standstill, and if sections in India are under the delusion that that is not so, events will very sadly disappoint them." He went on to say that revolutionary methods forced out the moderates and allowed the two extremes of reaction "to kick and tear and sweat against each other...
...student, starving while attending school. Starvation has forced me to pick from garbage cans pieces of herring, and to eat hay and pieces of paper to satiate the guawing pangs of hunger." Professor S. Ralph Barlow '08 of Smith College yesterday gave a CRIMSON reporter the above state- ment, made to him by a Russian student, as an illustration from his own experience of the plight of students in European universities. For ten years Professor Harlow was a professor in Smyrna, and during the last three years he has been in charge of the Student Friendship Fund in Asia Minor...
...record for infant mortality was made with 77 per 1,000 births, scarcely more than half the 1901 rate of 151. But the improve- ment is more than offset by the unprecedentedly low birthrate of 20.4 per 1,000 living. The total births (780,124) were fewer than in any year, with the exception of the war years, since 1869, when England had but 22,000,000 population. Male births are still greatly in excess of female, the ratio being...