Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belonging to the Canadian National. Rural districts in the affected territory are supporting the Canadian National; towns and cities are in favor of the Canadian Pacific. Should the threatened railroad war materialize and become a political as well as an economic issue, six Parliamentary seats, including that occupied by Prime Minister King would be drawn into the conflict. So Minister of Railways Charles Avery Dunning has appealed to both roads for some amicable compromise...
...been though of as Harvard's property, or at least as obtainable almost at will, that speculation has run rather on what might happen when it was gone. Now that its disappearance before Harvard's expansion southward has become a matter only of time, there arise two questions of prime importance: What to do with the riverfront which is now open for development, and where is now open for development, and where to locate a new power plant to serve the University...
Pondering well these words the Chamber presently gave the Prime Minister a vote of confidence, 325 to 251, a majority of 74. Thus the Government of France need not fear to be knifed in the back by Parliament, during the Reparations negotiations, as was Thomas Woodrow Wilson when he sought and failed to persuade Congress that the U. S. should enter the League of Nations...
...lounged on cushions of matched snakeskin M. le Senateur Caillaux could not know that he was near to losing another of his "lives"-this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial entente, and was denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued...
...struck at Zagreb, seat of the Croatian Party led by Dr. Vladko Matchek, who came out strongly in favor of the Dictatorship when it was first proclaimed. Last week, however, Doctor Matchek and fellow Croats, barred from their own party headquarters in Zagreb by the police, were informed by Prime Minister General Zivkovitch that "all political parties are terminated and citizens do not assemble for political purposes since there are not any." Thereupon Dr. Matchek figuratively rent his garments, crying: "Woe to Croatia! His Majesty has not given us the new liberties we expected, but has taken away even those...