Word: options
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stresemann continues at the Foreign Office. So does Dr. Gessler, Minister of Defense since 1920, a prodigious record. It is these statesmen of the middle parties, the "Little Coalition" men, who have wrought the ship of the Republic so strong that last week the Nationalists saw no option but to climb aboard...
...prize-ring in Waterbury, Conn., and assumed an upright position before Jack Delaney, world's light heavyweight champion. He had been paid a certain sum of money to get into that ring so that Delaney could have something to hit. To be sure, the Jamaica Kid had the option to hit back if he were able, but he knew after the second round that he would not be able long. An expression of physical terror, resigned and ghastly, spread over his black face. Delaney hit him in the stomach. The Kid fell down, got up. Delaney...
Grim poilus in steel helmets replaced the police guard of the Palais Bourbon one day last week. Within, the Deputies tensed expectantly. Without, an ugly-minded crowd surged and shouted. Suddenly the motor car of Premier Poincaré approached at a speed which gave the mob of malcontents no option between scattering and suffering body bruises. They scattered, reassembled to hoot when he had passed safely into the Chamber. From M. Raymond Poincaré, the Wartime president of France (1913-20), the post-War Premier (1922-24) who sought to collect German reparations by occupying the Ruhr, only one policy...
...tutorial system to appreciate its problems. A close analysis of the figures indicates therefore, that the intelligent reaction to the proposal was rather favorable than unfavorable. With an affirmative vote of 618 there is sufficient support at least to warrant a plan to give candidates for distinction the option of taking the written general examinations in Junior year if they prefer...
...recent decision of Justice Staley of New York renders legal the action of the White Plains school board in dismissing pupils at the option of their parents half an hour early to attend religious instruction. In the opinion of Judge Staley, neither the constitutional provision for the separation of church and state nor the requirement of compulsory school attendance were infringed. According to strict, legalistic interpretation of the statutes, the judge was no doubt correct. But socially, the wisdom of cutting into school hours to provide for theological education is open to question...