Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council also recommended that: 1) Neutral (Swedish) officers shall supervise the Greco-Bulgar frontier in future. 2) Persons of Greek origin living in Bulgaria shall be transferred to Greece...
Further, the report urged that neutral officers be placed in charge of the forces guarding frontiers in the Balkans, and that the machinery for a "Conciliation Commission" to function in case of hostile incidents along the frontiers be prepared and held in readiness. Similarly the report urged that special transport and communication facilities be accorded by the governments of the Balkans to officials of the League in the event of another war scare...
...unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle no one. The only thing to do is to reverse the point of view, whitewash villains and smear angels with lamp-black until all are reduced to neutral gray...
...next few years, the games word played in Boston, New Haven and New York; then, in 1889, Springfield was made the authorized battle ground and the two colleges journeyed out along the post road to meet each other half way on neutral territory. Football was finally beginning to take on a modern aspect with a genuine differentiation between backfield and line. Scouting was not yet a business and sometimes chose picturesque methods. Some enterprising Yale men were wont to observe Harvard's secret practice on Soldiers Field from the Mount Auburn Cemetery tower, until Major Henry Lee Higginson was apprised...
...bridge, the phantom forms of John Harvard and Eli Yale stalk through their midst, arm in arm, returning to Cambridge after many historic conflicts on the football field. They have met many times before, and in many different situations: in Hamilton Park, New Haven, for the first time, on neutral ground at Spring-field, in Boston baseball parks, in New York, and for years now, alternately in the Bowl and the Stadium. Theirs is the longest football tradition in the country. Between them, they have fathered that ungainly child, the modern game of football. Every year, before thousands of alumni...