Word: save
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haugenites could not, in his belief, have hoped to fix "fairer" prices than the prices currently obtaining. None knows better than Banker Meyer the disasters farmers have faced, but he regards farmers who had not recovered from post-War depression as "the inevitable aftermath." No price-fixing laws would save them...
...days, have expressed their willingness to donate a sum of money toward a quota which will enable them to purchase this famous old dormitory with the intention of giving it to the University. This was the original plan of the late C. C. Stillman '98, who bought it to save for Harvard...
...dogmatic solution of the problem is far from the author's intent. "Oliver Cromwell," he says in closing, "had set out with the high profession that he would save the parliamentary liberties of Englishmen. That was his theory. In practice he never once allowed England to elect a free Parliament, and his only permanent legacy to the nation was a standing army. A fact like that cannot be fitly explained by the mere historian. It is a subject for a writer of great tragedy--or farcical comedy...
...liberty appeals to publics of every land, it would be almost too inconsistent for England to turn from her Egyptian "problem" or the United States from its Nicaraguan campaign to warn Japan out of Manchuria. But altruism by proxy is a favorite virtue of governments, and may yet save China from her neighbor...
...friendly little monarchy was very hospitable. It allowed him the use of an ex royal castle, now a hotel, and promised to interference as long as he observed the law. Meanwhile, he was surrounding himself with secrecy in England. While great trucks were driving off his belongings, no men save those with special permits were allowed with in the gates of Oakhurst Court. The Prince is being mysterious in order to play the game of intrigue better, but the game must grow tiresome when it forces him to move so often