Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important change in the Covenant was proposed. Article XII* is to be amended. The first sentence is to end "and they agree in no case to resort to war, except in repelling attack." The whole protocol was subordinated to the question of disarmament which is to be thrashed out at an international conference to be held at Geneva on June...
...that summer has come and gone, the truth about the summer resorts can be told?at least from the financial side. Northern New England resort keepers, it seems, have not wholly enjoyed the summer months. For their tribulations there have been many and various causes...
...apprehended two Negroes suspected of causing the double death. They were conveyed to jail in the adjoining town of Mound City. Slowly a grumbling mob assembled. A storm-cloud of violence hovered over the scene. Then a man came forward from the crowd. He pleaded with them not to resort to violence. He prayed with them. There was no lynching that...
...dead of night would certainly have meant a termination of his valuable career if not for the huge, umbrella-like parachute. Jumping from a plane is sufficiently hazardous, and calls for real nerve, and none of the men who fly these ships should be deprived of this last resort or fail to practice for the awful moment when they must jump. Whether passengers can ever be made to undertake the sickening leap into space is another matter...
...disobeying it. "?-'-:t is quite intelligible that Mr. MacDonald may wish this governing principle to be laid down afresh, with all the authority which a verdict coming from the whole empire would give it. If, as the treaty act requires, he must, as a last resort, proceed with the appointment of the Boundary Commission and enforce its findings in the face of a contumacious Ulster, it is well that the judgment of the empire should have been expressed on the side of legality...