Word: paring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Naval Air Service is inadequate; yet the Director of the Budget has amputated 60% of our requests for next year. We were refused $30 million to modernize our obsolete vessels; but the upstart Coast Guard service was granted $20 million for Prohibition enforcement by the last Congress. We pare our requests to the bone and you cut 16% more. And the President also forbids the elevation of guns. We will sink to a third-rate power instead of standing with a first-rate navy as the naval treaties entitle...
...seeming pedantic as "non violent coercion by methods of nonparticipation." Briefly, he wished to free India from foreign domination, and to bring this about he initiated his famous triple boycott, urging all his followers to ignore British courts keep their children out of British schools, and refuse to take pare in governmental assemblies. The immediate disruption of civil affairs which the continuance of this program brought about moved the local authorities to seize the Mahatma and confine him in prison, after one of the most extraordinary trials in English judicial history...
...with Municipal Government, Government 9, dealing with State Government, Government 7 and 18, dealing with Federal Government, Government 11, dealing with the government of colonies and dependencies, and Government 8, dealing with the principal European countries, are courses which describe different types of government more in detail, and com- pare their structure and functions, as developed under different conditions, with particular reference to their actual workings. All these courses treat the practical problems of politics and administration as well as more theoretical questions of organization and activity...