Word: reflects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber on this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee was supposed to reflect the temper of the Chamber. Surely now, M. Briand must yield...
...augurs ill for the permanent value, which it had been hoped this country would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only...
...fact that the country was more thickly populated than most countries of our modern world. The civilization of the Mayas was built up on an abundant reservoir of man power supported by the fertile vegetable growth of the tropics. Our admiration for them must increase when we reflect that their magnificent temples of worship alone were probably made with man power alone, man power wielding tools of stone...
...Violent Incident occurred when bushy-bearded Communist Deputy Maffi shrieked that the demonstrations in Mussolini's honor did not reflect the feelings of the laboring classes...
...create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni will do well to reflect on the matter lest they in turn may offer a target for well-directed, if kindly, arrows...