Word: resists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eventual outcome of the occupation. The latter are concerned by the limited results obtained from a project which they had fondly hoped would return them handsome profits, and are alarmed at the prospect that they may be called upon to pay part of the occupation costs. The Fight. Resistance, threats and violence are the order of the day. A requisitioning expedition by the French at Essen ended in a casualty list of 9 killed and 26 wounded. A large number of Germans were arrested and some were deported; the most important case being the arrest of four Krupp directors...
...back his own country. The establishment of a great coal and iron industry in Germany has obvious advantages to himself. It insures illimitable profits for the future. So the great magnate stirs the people up against the French under the guise of patriotism; and hungry, discontented, deceived men resist and suffer for the Coal King and his satellites...
...question of policy the Germans are as adamant as ever in their conviction to resist the French. The " Franco-Belgian Entente " says that the real object of the Ruhr is to speed up coal deliveries, which seems tantamount to admitting defeat. They have, however, decided to requisition coal in the pits with their own labor backed by force, if the mine owners fail to pay a coal tax. But the true aim of the French and Belgians seems to be a separate agreement with Germany and the abandonment of the Versailles treaty...
...mouth-filling dictum is memorable for another reason; -- the attentive Boswell for once disagreed with his master's defense of the play, and declared "the gaiety and heroines of a highwayman very captivating to a youthful imagination", and a temptation which "it requires a cool and strong judgment to resist". Boswell was not alone in his brave opposition; no loss a figure than Edmund Burke "thought the literary merit of "The Beggar's Opera' small and its social effect injurious...
...contributor in the communication printed below compares the CRIMSON's attitude on the question of the ticket allotment with that of the complacent football fan who yells, "Punk Judgment!" after a play has failed. He feels called upon to resist an implied attack on the Graduate Treasurer and remarks that, "we can safely trust even his snap guesses in preference to other people's well-laid plans." The writer reads into the CRIMSON's recent editorial insinuations of "graft" and concludes by putting a chip on the shoulder of the Athletic Association with a distinct invitation to the CRIMSON...