Word: renewal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State, and Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador to the United States, signed an agreement to renew the arbitration treaty of 1908 between the two countries. The treaty has already been twice renewed for five years, in 1913 and 1918, and the third renewal is for the same duration. The treaty provides that any legal disputes which cannot be settled by diplomacy shall be submitted to the Hague Court of Arbitration-provided that the matter does not affect the "vital interests, the independence or the honor of the two contracting States." A new feature embodied...
...Paulsboro, N. J. Georges Barbot was slightly injured, the machine was wrecked. This was not all. Curio hunters stripped the aeroplane of engine, instruments and wings. With this inexcusable act of vandalism went Barbot's chances of repairing his flivver. Undaunted, however, he plans to build another and renew his attempts...
When, after graduation, the class scatters to the four corners of the earth, then the desire to renew acquaintances and associations which before were scarcely appreciated becomes a powerful force. Fortunately when the heart for unity has at last come, there are means ready at hand for bringing it about. Mr. Eliot Wadsworth '98, in an article on "The Future of the Class" in the Senior Album, has set forth these means and their manner of working. Briefly they are the Alumni Association the Harvard Bulletin, the Harvard Clubs, the Associated Harvard Clubs, and the Class reunions. These will still...
With the final notes of the season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra technically ceased to exist. The musicians would not renew their contracts because the trustees refused a wage increase. They demanded $67.50 per week instead of $60. In 1916, they received...
...that a way has been found to make synthetic eyes as good as real, and dozens of factories are running full time turning out artificial limbs, and monkey glands are being used regularly to renew youth; all we need for a prizewinner at next year's New York show is the foundation of an assembling plant for human parts...