Word: messe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred young men of Harvard, after the Harvard hockey team has won a crucial game, boarded a Boston subway last week, conducted a miniature pep session in the aisles, broke a good deal of glass, and generally made a pretty complete mess...
...four hours before Ludendorff launched his spring offensive. The first barrage shattered Chaplain Warne's nerve. For the next three weeks of nightmare, as the lines bent daily backward but never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This parson of ours came out, I should say, thinking he was going to preach a Jihad.* All parsons do, to a certain extent. And what happens-some of 'em turn into quite good mess caterers, and that's about all." Chaplain Warne did not even turn into...
...finances were chaotic. The Government had no money on hand for its work; the foreign obligations were a tangled mess, and a complete reorganization necessarily was decided upon. A new national bank was formed and given the privilege of coining money and carrying out the Treasury functions of the Government. The contract between the Haitians and the bank provided that disputes were to be settled by arbitration and that there was to be no diplomatic intervention. The bank was originally a French corporation. The United States protested, however, against "the establishment in Haiti of a monopoly which excluded American enterprise...