Word: salient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are three salient features to the Colombian petroleum industry: first, the marked predominance, amounting almost to monopoly, of American capital in that field; secondly, the difficulty of access from the seaboard to the richer deposits, necessitating excessive costs of pipe line construction and drilling, which are nearly double those for corresponding work in this country and Mexico; thirdly, the legal status of the industry was radically changed in November and December, 1919, when a decree of the Colombian Supreme Court, followed by a new petroleum code, put an end to various government owner ships and "nationalization" schemes and removed...
...keep hours every weekday morning from 9 to 11 in the study at Wadsworth House for consultation with any members of the University who may call upon them. The daily morning service is the most characteristic of the services. It is open to members of the University only. Its salient feature is that it contains a brief address of five minutes duration. It had not been the original intention that there should be such an address. Phillips Brooks, out of the overflowing fullness of his own spirit, set the example. The CRIMSON made request that other preachers should...
America, influenced partly by the inevitable swing of the pendulum, partly by reaction against President Willson's system of personal government, and partly by a suspicion of the European connections into which the present Administration has carried her, is reverting resolutely to her habitual conservatism. That is the salient fact to be reckoned with for the next two and probably four years. How, it is necessary to ask, will that affect America's relations with the rest of the world and with this country in particular...
Professor William Bennett Munro, Ph.D., '00, will open the Election Returns meeting in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 with a short address on the salient features of the current presidential campaign...
...military efficiency. It served with distinction in the Spanish War, and on the Mexican Border in 1916. As the 105th Machine Gun Battalion of the 27th New York Division, it served in Flanders and in France and participated in every engagement of that Division from the Ypres salient to the breaking of the Hindenburg line between Cambral and St. Quentin, and in the subsequent operations up to the Sambre Canal...