Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harding in 1920 has been the publishing of his newspaper, the Dayton News.* But he has expressed himself publicly at frequent intervals. In May, 1921, he declined to criticise Harding. By January of the next year, he assailed the Administration's Limitation of Armaments Conference as a "resort to the noisy methods of a circus" and added that the Administration had "profaned Republican history ... by forsaking the soul of Abraham Lincoln for the spleen of Henry Cabot Lodge." Two months later he attacked the Administration for refusing to participate in the Genoa Economic Conference. In succeeding speeches he advocated...
...seeking first of all to aid in the simplification of the law, as announced by the courts, through an analytical and constructive restatement: not as a code, not to have the illusory certainty of a legislative enactment, but as a source to which judges and lawyers may resort for precise and comprehensive information, possessing the only lasting authority, that of learning and accuracy. It is a colossal undertaking; some might say it is the task of Sisyphus...
...fail in overthrowing the corrupt Pashitch regime nothing can prevent an early outbreak of revolution in Macedonia and Montenegro. As a last resort we shall appeal to the League of Nations. Croatia, with Dalmatia and Slovenia, formerly Hungarian, have a more western civilization than the rest of Yugoslavia and enjoyed a greater 'degree of autonomy under Hungarian than Yugoslav sovereignty. Fiume actually is in Crotia...
...member of one of the committees of the Assembly. He explained the workings of the Covenant saying that the "League is not a super-state, but a servant trying to benefit humanity. It is not living up to the Covenant, and I am glad of that. It does not resort to force. After all public opinion is the power behind the League...
...Crimson jubilation was short- lived, for the second half quickly took on a decidedly Blue tinge. The heroic efforts of the Harvard defense, particularly Rudofsky, still halted the Eli attackers at a respectable distance from the basket and forced them to resort to mid-court shots. Pite's luck changed, however, and the same sort of long-distance pot-shots which had gone wild in the first half now began to drop through the hoop with disconcerting regularity...