Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale comes in behind the University golfers this afternoon, when the two teams clash on the neutral greens of the Rhode Island Country Club at Nayatt, it will be the twentieth consecutive victory for what can be safely said to be the University's most successful sport...
Marshal Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian Tuchun (War Lord), was marching upon the Capital. General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Chinese Christian Soldier," discovering that many of his generals were "neutral," decided that he would not fight Chang...
...give a jabot effect in front ... an enameled buckle of rust and jade . . . sleeves long and close-fitting, the neckline square in front with high shoulders . . . string of small jade beads . . . gown eight or possibly nine inches off the floor . . . satin pumps and hosiery of the same neutral tones, with pumps darker than the hosiery...
From the first day of the War, the King showed that he was wholeheartedly on the side of the Allies. Although he vigorously maintained, as Monarch, a proper attitude of neutrality, he personally went farther in assisting the Allies than did any other neutral sovereign. His first act was to assure France through his Government that there was no need to maintain a large Army on the Franco-Spanish frontier. The French relied upon his assurances and transferred no less than three army corps from the Pyrenees to the battlefields of northern France. More signal proof of his attachment...
...have us believe. Take, for example, the case of the Italian fencers. Their match with France was tied when the Italian and French champions finally crossed blades. It was an exciting moment Harvard-Yale football games played by two men would best express it. The judges were all of neutral nationality. At last this Frenchman who; whereupon the Italians, in their first burst of disappointment, accused the judges of unfairness, picked up their weapons, and marched out of the hall singing Viva Mussolin!" By the next morning, of course, they had cooled down and had apologized, Yet there...