Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maker and peace teacher is Jesus Christ. When men have learned to live up to the teachings of this Prince of Peace they will go to war no more. There are economic reasons against war, and political and eugenic and humanitarian reasons, good reasons all, but men will still resort to bayonet and bomb so long as they have not imbibed the spirit of the Nazarene. That spirit is religious, of God, and produced and multiplied in a place of worship even better than in a place of scholarship. Only the highest ideals and the deepest convictions will uproot...
...Muerren, famed Swiss resort, a descendant of the oldest Imperial House in the world twirled and pirouetted upon the ice. Baron Hayashi, onetime Japanese Ambassador to Britain, watched anxiously as the Imperial personage to whom he acts as tutor, cut figure-eights with joyful abandon. Meanwhile fashionable onlookers whispered the skater's identity. They whispered that he was Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, the second son of the Mikado...
...obvious that Western people are forcing their Eastern brethren to drop their ways and methods, but in the victory which they seem to be winning they are creating situations which will make for a more terrible war. If every time an incident, great or small, arises, the powerful nations resort to violence, there can be no peace. Nicaragua, Haiti, Amritsar, Rubr, Corfu, Egypt all involved a resort, to force upon the part of the great and powerful nations against the unarmed and helpless. In all of these instances the aggressor nation was strong enough and powerful enough to have invoked...
...definition of a "satisfactory long-term agreement" was the sticking point. The operators wanted something that would last perhaps ten years, and realizing the futility of trying to fix wages for so long a period, felt it necessary to include a provision for periodic adjustment of wagesate resort in case negotiation failed. Right there was the centre of the disagreement. The miners demanded concessions. The operators would have been willing to grant most of these concessions, provided they could get arbitration for the future. But the miners answered it flatly: "No arbitration!" Each side tried to present its plan...
Even were Germany to be proven innocent, France and her allies could resort to the age old theory of might to enforce the treaty of Versailles. If successful, the German endeavor will foment disturbance and reinforce past bitterness. Failing in its attempt, German diplomacy will have caused the League to waste both time and words...