Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization as outlined by J. D. Gatsos '29, Secretary Treasurer and Chairman of the program committee, is to unite the foreign students of the University. At the meetings they will be addressed by men who are familiar with current international relations and will have an opportunity to discuss on neutral grounds the problems of their respective nations...
While Mexico and the U. S. fought (1848), Sutter kept his realm neutral and intact; even increased it by a tract "24 hours square." California was ceded and he smoked in peaceful reverie, thinking at last of his wife, his children, his oldtime comrades.... He sent for her and them, begging forgiveness with letters of credit which were but footnotes of his prosperity. While waiting for them, he busied himself with a new sawmill up on Sutter's Creek...
...vitriolic acid air" (sulphur dioxide), "fluor acid air" (silicon fluoride), "alkaline air" (gaseous ammonia). One day, he tried passing electric sparks through his "alkaline air" and found that it decomposed into nitro gen and hydrogen. Then, "having a notion" that ammonia and hydrochloric acid gas, mixed, might produce a "neutral air," he obtained some of the first pure crystals of sal ammoniac oy one more chance experiment...
Personally I have failed to notice or to observe either of the above views. However, a member of the faculty did tell me that 'Harvard was neutral on the matter of religion.' One has only to take a half year in Freshman Psychology in order to find out that "there ain't no such animal...
Representatives of both factions met in London, during the week, and rejected the Government plan, though leaving open the way to future negotiation. Both miners and operators opposed fiercely the Government proposal to place the adjustment of wages in the hands of a board whose neutral chairman would have a casting vote over the equal representatives of mine capital and miner labor...