Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which side does the real debt lie? Let us speak the truth. Our Anglo-Saxon friends like that, and there are many who share our opinion. France isn't pleading her cause. She has given her signature and she will respect it, but she demands as her right and not as an act of grace that there be taken into account in the settlement her side of the balance sheet...
...peruses the `Index' must be struck with the ingenuity of the undergraduate. The list of societies, clubs, and what not which that manual contains must inspire him with a genuine respect for our inventive powers. Close examination of the list, and full understanding of the objects of the different societies it mentions, will, however, lay us open to a grave charge, a suspicion which no ingenuity will palliate,--a charge directed against our sense of justice rather than the force of our intellect; a charge of unfairness. I have deliberated long before fully resolving to bring this notice...
Conditions similar to these at the University are being faced at nearly all the leading colleges of the country. Yale especially can be compared to the University in this respect. The University of Illinois has put in a new program of compulsory physical training for all students, but this could not be done here even if it were deemed advisable because the University has not the necessary equipment to care for such a number...
...avert trouble, issued a statement declaring that "the agreement reached at Paris was simply for the allocation of the payments made under the Dawes plan. It does not provide for sanctions or deal with any questions that might arise if the contemplated payments should not be made. With respect to any such contingency the agreement in Paris puts the United States under no obligation legally or morally, and the United States will be as free as it ever was to take any course of action it may think advisable...
...Shaw ridicules the Third Internationale, disregarding historic processes. In this respect, the dramatist is as dull as Lord Curzon. Like other petty bourgeoisie, the Socialist Shaw favors Marxism in Russia but not in England, thereby proving ignorance of the power of Marxism...