Word: modus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol has a businesslike way of getting along with Turks. The State Department published, last week, some notes exchanged between the Admiral, as High Commissioner to Turkey, and the Turkish Foreign Minister, oily, wiley, bespectacled Tewfik Rushdi Bey. The notes continue, by avowed mutual consent, the modus vivendi between the U. S. and Turkish State Departments which has to be patched up from time to time, because the U. S. Senate refuses (TIME, Jan. 24) to ratify the treaty of Lausanne which would affirm U. S. recognition of the Turkish Government...
...notes exchanged last week state: 1) that the former modus vivendi, recently expired, is extended by mutual consent to June 1, 1928; 2) that the U. S. High Commissioner will be supplanted by a U. S. ambassador and a consul "as soon as possible...
Lausanne Treaty. The Senate failed by six votes to muster the two-thirds' majority necessary to ratify this treaty. The result: there is no peaceful relationship between the U. S. and Turkey except a temporary commercial modus vivendi...
...Senate has refused to ratify the Lausanne Treaty (TIME, Jan. 31), Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, able U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, busied himself at Angora last week and was reported to have signed an agreement with the Kemalist Government temporarily extending once more the commercial modus vivendi between Turkey and the U. S. which would otherwise have expired last week...
Perhaps it is wrong to wish that Ox-onians should prepare at Eton or Cantabridgians at Harrow and yet the singleness of purpose attained is to be desired. Under the present modus operandi one prepares at Oscaloosa High, aims for Harvard, and goes to Georgia Tech,--a diversion of purpose hardly a credit to a student's ambition. While the interchange of educational parts made possible by College Board Examinations is a happy convenience, it has its cultural limitations. It will be far nobler when the man who prepares at Oscaloosa High either secures a Harvard degree or none...