Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...middle of the summer will see Professor Holcombe in Geneva, Switzerland, where he expects to remain for several weks. While there he will attend the Assembly of the League of Nations in September, and will then journey to Russia. He expects to spend some time here studying the conditions of the Soviet, and hopes to be present at the tenth celebration of the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, to be held in Moscow in October...
Shortly after this celebration he will leave for the Far East, where, if conditions permits be will remain for eight or nine months. He will pass through Siberia and Manchuria on the way and will spend most of the time in China and Japan. While in the East he may give lectures in several Japanese and Chinese Universities...
...Commission, described the Commission's "progress" last week in optimistic terms. Said he: "The Commission has carried out its assignment. ... It has drawn up a scheme [the "Draft Treaty of Disarmament"] for the reduction and limitation of armaments. . . . While it is true that the figures quantitatively representing armaments remain to be filled in; and, while this must prove a task of great difficulty, still broad outlines have been established. . . . Reservations have been made by various countries and alternative texts provided, but the differences yet remaining have been defined and restricted. There is little doubt that the remaining differences will...
...women being less efficient after marriage, I can assure you that a woman can have at least two* children and still remain more efficient than most Right Honorable members. It takes a curious type of mind to say that woman's place is in the home. Men don't say that unless women are in the higher positions. When a woman is a charwoman or a cook nobody says her place is in the home...
...Byronic collar, handsome, frank of feature, stood bowing before Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and the Prince Consort, Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Though newsgatherers did not penetrate the inflexible reserve of the Grand Ducal Court, it became known that Prince Otto and his mother expected to remain only briefly at Luxembourg, and it was believed that they would shortly be permitted to return to Hungary- a return ardently desired by Hungarians but hitherto prevented by the Great Powers...