Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily contact with the League this summer I feel that one thing is outstanding,--the League is growing in influence and gaining in confidence all the time. The Third Assembly was much more successful in actual results achieved than either of the first two. Lord Robert Cecil's Disarmament scheme, or, more accurately, Reduction through a Pact of Mutual Guarantees, to be presented next year; a definite agreement by four great League members to get Austria on her feet; the sending of Nansen to Constantinople to care for the Greek refugees; and work on mandates and minorities were the main...
...bursar on that. Or the Webster's dictionary without a cover which looked like a first edition. The second hand book man said it was nothing of the sort and refused to take it if paid; but the authorities on Kirkland street wouldn't know the difference. Anyway, the scheme is worth a trial...
...originally worked out the special subscription was on a twelve months' basis from January 1 to December 31, but in order that those interested might receive copies of the Committee's publications from the date of the opening of the School, a scheme has been devised whereby a fifteen month subscription from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 of the year following may be made...
...tour. He traveled through the west occasionally making a little money but the experience helped him greatly in acquiring proficiency in the English language. For about a year it seemed that he would have an opportunity to go to college through the assistance of an unknown man but the scheme falled and he went back to lecturing again. It was now that nea first began to preach and for several years be became a pastor in Michigan and Ohio, but he finally decided to settle down in Boston where he is still preaching...
...room, and if the student agrees to the price set, the College will buy them. This means of disposing of college furniture seems to be the easiest and the most--satisfactory. For the simple reason that the University is not doing the purchasing as a money-making scheme, the prices paid are usually much fairer than any obtainable elsewhere...