Word: realm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formula which will secure a sensible solution of the reparations snarl while saving the faces of Poincare and Cuno. Or France may elect to break up the remnants of the Entente and pursue what she feels is the only possible policy in the Ruhr. It is even within the realm of possibility that in the end France and Germany should come into closer union than ever before in an industrial entente based on coal and iron...
...military maneuvers held by the Bavarian Fascista Army, wholehearted supporters of the monarchy. All day long a bloodless battle raged around the villages of Starnberg and Oberwiensfeld just outside Munich. The men were a motley crew, some attired in civilian clothes, some in their old Reichswehr (Defence of the Realm) uniforms. But all were determined compatriots in the cause of the Vaterland. The men were equipped with revolvers and brass knuckles. The artillery was present only in imagination. The minnenwerfer (mortar) platoons were fully equipped except for the minnenwerfers. The men were supplied with slings for the latest...
...uproars in the French Chamber of Deputies and the Japanese Diet, described in the last issue of TIME, comes the news of tumultuous scenes in the Czecho-Slovakian Chamber of Deputies. When the Speaker announced that the report of the committee of Constitutional Law on the Defence of the Realm Bill would be read, Dr. Smeral, leader of the communists, gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists...
Similarly, there is no feud in this college between humanism and science, between the Classics and philosophy or the subjects that have grown out of philosophy as the ancients knew it. If a student would devote his main attention to a more recent part of the broad realm of human interests, and yet would examine its relations to antiquity, he will find programmes of concentration described in the official pamphlets whereby a study of the Classics may be combined with Philosophy or History or Government or Economics or Fine Arts as well as with Modern Literature. If his centre...
...Glee Club then turned to the realm of folk-song and in the Scotch and Irish ballads they sang with a fire and lilt which delighted the audience. The Bach finale, despite the too liberal use of brasses and organ, was a veritable burst of glory...