Word: reference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is so good that perfection comes to be demanded! Hence this comment upon "one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick" (issue of Feb. 23, page 17). You refer to Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, widow of Henry Sidgwick, the famous English philosopher, sister of A. J. Balfour (now the Earl of Balfour), principal of Girton College, Cambridge, till 1910. She is probably the most experienced member of the Society for Psychical Research, a purely scientific organization with which she lias been intimately connected since its inception. Aside from her connections, she is, by right of her own achievement, among the most eminent of living...
...more or less substantiated rumor has it that the Rumanian government, before adopting trade reprisals against Germany, will refer the commercial dispute to arbitration by competent American authorities...
...more time to consider the protocol proposals, owing to the fact that her Dominions had declined to attend an Imperial Conference on the subject. This, in turn, was regarded as unfavorable and a project was in hand to drop the security proposals out of the drafted protocol and refer the whole question to this year's Assembly. There was probably no truth in the report that Britain would offer France a separate security pact...
...connection with some comments on Mr. Bernard Macfadden, world-renowned Physical Culturist and quack-exposer, published in a recent issue of TIME, you refer to the public as a "hydra-headed Amphibian" and as "that Beast." Will you allow me to observe th?t the use of such terms is in extremely bad taste and that the author of them deserves severe criticism...
...Government was thought likely, however, to refer the matter to the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague, and, if Turkey opposed the Court's verdict, to withdraw the Greek diplomatic representative at Angora, which might be interpreted as a declaration...