Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodor Leipart of the associated German trades unions-the manifesto read: "After an epoch in which the victor states [in the War] . . . sought to force on Germany their will-an epoch in which Germany came close to the abyss-German efforts have succeeded in bringing about a revival. . . . The period of violence and one-sided dictatorship was succeeded by a period of negotiations and understanding. . . . Liberation of the Rhineland from foreign occupation will be . accomplished in a short time. Reparations will be reduced by important yearly sums. . . . "This development may now, all of a sudden be cut off. A referendum...
Said he: "Our arrangements, if completed, should give profitable employment to tens of thousands of Britons." Viscount D'Abernon's "arrangements" were: 1) an agreement with Argentina by which that country is to buy $38,880,000 worth of manufactured goods from Great Britain over a period of two years, and reciprocally Britain is to take an equal amount in raw material from Argentina; 2) an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of $77,760,000; 3) a British loan of $200,000,000 to the Argentine government for road building...
...executive responsibility, there has at various times been a feeling that routine work connected with some of the courses leaves the student little time for thought and consideration of some of the more significant phases of study. Under the new plan the first year will continue to be a period of basic instruction with required courses for all students; men of distinction grade will then be eligible to drop most of their course work and devote themselves to their own branch of study...
...required her to do. In the old Pathe comedies she used to get plastered with dough, tossed in blankets, dumped into ponds out of laundry baskets. Before that she took child roles with Selig. From Pathe she graduated to wearing silver wigs in Cecil B. De Mille's period pictures. Lately, in her 40th to 49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm Beach Girl), or more esoteric backgrounds (A Kiss...
...game was even during the first period; the score being 2 to 2, at the end of the first half. In the third period the Harvard team reached its stride, and four goals were scored by the forward line...