Word: pointedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Chamberlain-Briand discussions at Geneva, last week, fortunately ended in a preliminary agreement. No definite action can be taken without the consent of the Parliaments concerned. Britain, through Chamberlain, reaffirmed her willingness to place her armed forces at the disposal of the nation defending an attack (i. e., Germany...
Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities. Scopes left for Dayton, leaving his friends to allege that he had refused syndicate offers aggregating $150,000, had refused to be pointed out, as most celebrities long...
The cat leapt from the bag. Wild rumors circulated in Berlin: "The House of Stinnes is bankrupt"; "The Stinnes power is unshaken." These were the extreme views. Certain it was that the vast," intricate interests bequeathed by the late Herr Hugo Stinnes were financially embarrassed. Fear was expressed that, since...
Students rose in a body, filled with anger, incited the workers to violence against "the foreign devils," pointed out that, if the workers rose in a body, they would outnumber the foreigners by tremendous odds, could free themselves of their chains.
Heart-rending stories of men who broke teeth or cracked their jaws in futile attacks on a restaurant steak will soon be no more, if the government succeeds in perfecting instruments with which to measure the toughness of beef. The Department of Agriculture pointed out that tender meat is worth...