Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powers who borrowed from her in pre-War francs, France has successfully demanded that they repay her at the pre-War rate of 19.3˘gold per franc. But she will not pay Britain more than 3.9˘ she defies Mr. Snowden, and he last week appeared to be powerless. Said London's Financial Times...
...Venice they meet. Disaster immediately pounces upon Caryl. Powerless to prevent it, he sees his first opportunity to attract some notice as a pianist casually swept aside by his brother. Sebastian's motives are purely fraternal when he starts out to help Caryl find Fenella, the girl Caryl loves, the girl who has sworn eternal love to him. Caryl again sits by while Sebastian's fraternal motives are overcome by something warmer. After Venice, where his ambition has foundered, and the Dolomites, where the search for Fenella and Sebastian's conquest of her has taken place, Caryl...
...compelled to differ from you. . . . In my judgment, you have insulted your country, insulted the churches of the U. S. and insulted en masse the chaplains of the Army and Navy. . . . [The U. S. and the churches] did not want the War, did not start the War, were powerless to prevent the War, but once drawn in ... prayed and fought for victory and peace. . . . You have no right to ignore underlying moral issues and to fail to distinguish between the will for peace which characterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world...
...reliable barometer mark of a coming political storm, Ramsay MacDonald's Labor ministry may fall. Although the London Conference might capsize in the wake of such an upheaval, there will also result a strengthening of the incipient coalition between Liberals and Conservatives. Lloyd George, since the war powerless to act upon his own, has, with his followers, been a constantly vacillating figure in English policies. The dignified Parlementarians have thrown aside their supposedly ingrained convictions and have turned to the pleasant game of free-lancing. That she has a Liberal Party which is also conservative, and a Conservative Party which...
...combined navies of all the European nations would be powerless to make a successful attack on the United States itself," said Rear Admiral W. S. Sims, U. S. N. (retired) in an informal talk to members of Naval Science classes in the Old Fogg lecture room yesterday afternoon. Admiral Sims explained that an invading fleet which had captured, for example, Montauk Point, would soon exhaust its fuel cruising to escape American submarines, and that its airplane carriers would be ineffectual against the superior numbers of the defending air fleet, which would stage a bombing at its leisure. "The best...