Word: parley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Jesus Lopez des-patched two soldiers in civilian dress to parley with the bandits and assure them that so large a ransom could not be raised for another 24 hours. The soldiers rode out, one carrying over his arm a brakeman's lantern. Though they proceeded to the spot designated for payment of the ransom they saw no bandits...
World Court Parley. Representatives of the World Court adherent nations met at Geneva in the International Labor Building to discuss the reservations of the U. S. Senate respecting U. S. adherence to the World Court (TIME, Feb. 8, 1925). Originally this meeting was called under League auspices (TIME, March 29) but U. S. League opponents have raised such an uproar that the delegates thought it wiser not to meet in the comfortable and vacant League of Nations Palace. No action was taken on the Senate's reservations last week...
...receipt of the German application, an extraordinary session of the Assembly of the League of Nations was at once called for March 8 by Signer Vittorio Scialoja, the Italian President of the Council of the League of Nations. At the same time, it was announced that the preliminary parley which is to pave the way for a League Economic Conference (TIME, Sept. 28 LEAGUE) will assemble at Geneva on April...
Feng, having suffered a severe repulse by the Li forces, issued a proclamation asking for peace on terms highly advantageous to Li. While the ensuing parley was under way, the Feng troops received reinforcements, crept up upon Tientsin, overwhelmed the garrison, and forced General Li to flee to the local Japanese concession in a, motor...
...importance given the curriculum, the Brown Daily Herald has said, "until some undesired evils, not the fault of the game itself, and which should never be associated with any sport, are removed, football can hardly be regarded as an unmitigated good." Undergraduates representing many colleges at the Wesleyan parley, with the exception of one, in a personal vote approved a radical readjustment of the present schedule system. And the Exonian, at Exeter, reveals that statistics prove football to be the decisive factor in determining the institution many of its graduates enter...