Word: moots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not the British have a right to prevent the building of the dam, seems to be a moot point. The conclusion of the Italo-British Treaty, which divided Abyssinia into spheres of influence, has been hotly denounced by Ras Taffari at the League of Nations, of which Abyssinia is a member. Moreover, the Anglo-Abyssinian treaty has been called unilateral (benefiting only Britain) and therefore not valid, according to the League. If this is so, Ras Taffari would merely have to denounce it to make it null and void and Britain could prevent the building...
...Turner first broke into sporting headlines two years ago when he rose toward the end of the season to first string ranks, and in the desperate Crimson defense against a more powerful Yale eleven which brought forth the famed 0.0 tie of that year he stood out as the moot stalwart of all barriers in the path of the Eli progress...
...According to despatches, a Philadelphian, to show his friend how the moot blow landed, pinched his friend quickly on stomach and chin. The friend toppled, fractured his skull, died...
...clock offers another moot question to the Vagabondian public when Professor Demos explains William James' Conception of Free Will to those who make Emerson D a throw back to the Platonic Academy. At the same hour Dr. Mason in Emerson F will expound "Marxism and Bolshevism," a lecture which should draw heavily from those who are interested in socialistic ideas...
...struts what was once the Great White Way, flirts with the girls of the Florodora Sextette, misbehaves toward his sweetheart Camille (Zazu Pitts) in a sporty buggy, thus forcing her to trudge a dusty homeward path; in short, does all the inept things possible for a lionized lump. The moot point is, why did he strike out with the bases full? The breath of scandal is finally deodorized by Luck and Love. The home-run king reigns on in left-handed magnificence...