Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Evening Standard, Beaverbrook journal, printed the story of MacDonald's lifelong friendship with Sir Alexander Grant, Chairman of the biscuit company. Grant's father and Mac-Donald's uncle had been fellow guards on the Highland Railway and the two boys had to a certain extent...
¶ Professor Henry Pratt Fairchild, of New York University, reiterated his solemn warning to the world against overpopulation, urged an ethical birth-control and a curb upon migration. Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, U. S. N., took the occasion to predict a clash of yellow and white men in Australia...
Its report was well calculated to arouse the fears of the closely-packed nations of Europe; indeed, its portent is grave. It pointed out that in the last war some 30 poison gases were used, gases which caused burns, destroyed the mucous membranes, produced temporary blindness, brought about violent sneezing...
Future. As Ramsay MacDonald pointed out (see above) success has not yet been achieved. What has happened is rather that the tangled skein of international wool (misunderstandings, etc.) has been unravelled. The Protocol and annexes have yet to be ratified by the respective Governments, failure to do which might well...
A horny finger of scorn pointed at the U. S. (P. 10.)