Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus the only party to worry about the strike is the public, and so far no great worrying has apparently been done. More and more, however, resort is being had to soft coal, crude oil and other fuels adaptable to household use. Makers of equipment for such use are enjoying considerable activity...
This is a very simple invention and a very old one and the fact that it has become so universal demonstrates that at heart man loves peace rather than war, that he prefers to let a judge decide rather than to resort to fighting...
Article II asserts: "Germany and Belgium, and also Germany and France, mutually undertake that they will in no case attack or invade each other or resort to war against each other." But it goes on to stipulate that any one of these nations may "exercise the right of legitimate defense, if the present treaty or the Versailles Treaty is "flagrantly violated" by one of the others; or may take up arms in accordance with the League Covenant, or may obey the League Council, in the event that the Council shall order action taken against a state which was first...
...between them and which it may not be possible to settle by the normal methods of diplomacy. There follow explicit regulations laying down the procedure for "conciliation commissions which are to referee disputes; and the proviso that the Council of the League will act as a court of last resort...
...time when that name was most unpopular among the Italian students; but never was their language in any way discourteous or defamatory. I think, Mr. Editor, that for the sake of sane judgment, which is due to all men, including Mussolini, it would be will for our critic to resort to less ambiguity in his mad search for humor. Peppino Porfilio...