Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franco-U.S. tariff dispute (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) came to a definite if temporary head last week when Premier Raymond Poincare, functioning as Minister of Finance, caused a note to be written to Washington expressing France's willingness to revert to the status quo ante for U. S. imports pending the negotiation of a new commercial treaty...
...Russia, to become cultured. All men are born as socialists, but the fortunate ones who are able to gain pecuniary incomes soon become capitalists and forget about the vast majority of those who depend on them. Were today's capitalist however, to be come suddenly poor, he too, would revert to Socialism...
...offer a suggestion? It is not wise to make a clock tick backwards. The past cannot be idly conjured up. It would be better, perhaps, to reiterate time-worn subjects, and to wring out mirth from the present at the expense of other colleges, cities, and societies, than to revert to the past, and bring to light only stuffed caricatures...
...caused much consternation among those who knew her at Urbana, where she had adopted bobbed hair, short skirts, and other marks of the superior western civilization. They find it hard to understand how, after being exposed to the cultural advantages of the Illinois university, she could so far revert to barbarism as to marry a prince of her own race, and what is more, to stay by his side when he is in danger. There are some, however, who admire the Princess for doing so, when she might be living in the luxury of Hollywood, writing for the syndicated papers...
...spite of the fact that each writes amusing verse, that particular style probably savors more of the King James Bible than any, other one source. Not yet may Miss Millay have a school, although if she did Miss Parker would be a splendid pupil; but the roots of poetics revert much further than even an illustrious Vassar graduate...