Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obliged to announce acceptance or rejection of the Report until 90 days after its adoption by the Assembly. Japan would remain a League member for two years after serving notice of intention to quit the League. Moreover the U. S. and Soviet Russia are to be asked under a paragraph of the Report (if adopted) to "associate themselves with the views expressed in the report . . . and concert their action and their attitude with the members of the League...
...ready to recognize the right of the coach to make rules, and adds the comforting information that "the will to win is still a prized heritage handed down from generation to generation of American life." The excellence of these sentiments comes abruptly to an end in the last paragraph, when the editor casually observes that it would be gross negligence on the part of the Director of Athletics and the Committee to tolerate an attitude of indifference to the physical preparations of athletic contests. That such a conclusion is not only equivocal but entirely unsatisfactory may be seen from...
...list has been carefully divided to make it more useable. There are sections on paper and papermaking, on Manuscripts, on Binding and on Book Collecting. After each book in the list, there is a short paragraph usually taken from the book's own preface, describing its contents and excellence. No books are listed that are not available in large public libraries...
...with the regions inhabited by the San Blas and Choco Indians of Panama. While I would by no means take exception to the opinions of such eminent authorities as the scientists of the Smithsonian Institution referred to in your article, there are one or two points in the final paragraph of the account which invite comment...
...armchair, with a cocktail at my elbow, I relished TIME'S report on Technocracy. . . . Aside from being informative, the article was TIME-worthy in another respect. Perhaps it was the amiable cocktail, but when I came to the word "obfuscated." I smiled. And when, in the same paragraph, I reached "rodomontade," I chuckled aloud...