Word: ment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo of the nominally democratic Nationalist Govern-ment at Nanking, make a spacious gesture, last week: He backed his brother-in-law, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, in promulgating a one-sentence exaggerated boast and flat defy to Chang Tso-lin, thus: "As the Nationalist Govern-ment controls sixteen of the twenty-one provinces of China, producing nearly 70% of the customs revenue, and as the authorities in control at Peking no longer repre- sent the legal successor of the former recognized Government, the Nationalist Government clearly cannot recognize the right of any other authorities independently...
...Washington, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William Edgar Borah, says: "The loitering, hesitating cheeseparing efforts at disarmament heretofore made will really get nowhere. . . . I do not think the proposal of Russia is in bad faith. I do not think Germany's manifested desire for disarma- ment is in bad faith. I have no idea that either Russia or Germany expects complete disarmament, and I have an idea that while radical proposals have been made, much less radical proposals will be acceptable. But I think both the Russian and German leaders would like to see pronounced steps toward...
Although he has been covering Harvard sportdom for only five years, he possessses an encyclopaedic knowledge of Soldiers Field doings within the memory of man. With very little encourage- ment he will give the scores and details of Harvard football games between any two given points in the past 20 years. His brothers in the fraternity of the press turn to him as to Volume XXII of the Britannica...
...reviewed the situation. U. S. Thesis. The U. S. holds that any foreign government has the right to impose whatever duties it sees fit, but that the treatment it offers should not discriminate against any country. In other words, it upholds the principle of most-favored-nation treat-ment,* i. e., that all countries should automatically receive equal tariff treatment. But this does not mean that the treatment between two countries can be equal, because of the difference in purchasing powers, price levels, commodities, etc. In illustration of this the U. S. note pointed out that 95% of imports from...
Tackling practice tried tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...