Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hearst papers have never sponsored the cause of education, and here they were tripped up by bad Spanish grammar and false chronology. But the thing was bound to be investigated, and it is a mistake to attribute to Mr. Hearst the ignorance and irresponsibility he pleases to assume. His scheme and purpose will eventually be illuminated. What is important now is that he feels invulnerable because his wealth takes care of libel suits, and because a large part of public opinion depends on the multitudes who read and Publicity believe only his papers. Mr. Ford held the prosperity of many...
...screen has become an integral part of Japanese architecture. Used originally to prevent drafts and to obtain privacy, it soon became a part of the decorative scheme. We know that folding screens were introduced from China before the tenth century...
...annex this country is only the first step in the grandiloquent scheme of Polish nationalists to build a gigantic state stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Of course this could not be accomplished without another war, which even the most sanguinary believe cannot happen for at least ten years. Yet that the Poles have been allowed to retain Vilna for seven years without an investigation by the League or interference by any of the powers shows that all is not well. It has its roots in the same condition that is responsible for anti-Semitic riots in Hungary...
Security is the scheme advocated by the lesser nations who are in more constant danger of war, but it relies upon the strength of the powerful, who certainly will not act unless it happens to agree with their immediate as well as their ultimate interests to do so. Nor is any security pact to which America is not a party really capable of enforcement...
...important event of the meeting was that Russia has apparently resumed its normal place among nations. This was undoubtedly the only meaning of the speech by M. Litvinoff, who opened the session by outlining a scheme calling for immediate and complete abandonment of all military and naval forces. Such a plan is hopelessly beside the point and was not intended to convince anyone, for the League has definitely decided that disarmament must be on the basis of security, which calls for no more than the reduction of armaments to the minimum needs of each nation. The proposal was boldly...