Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nations idea. No one else is perhaps so willing to bear this honor which is coupled with so much political dislike. Hoover, Hughes and Root cannot take it, even if they would, because Republicans as a body are against it. Among Democrats, those with political possibilities of a national scope fear to don it completely. There are some ?John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Newton D. Baker?who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward...
...given from about the middle of the 16th Century to the Protestants of France), so called because it began in Paris on St. Batholomew's Day, Aug. 24, 1572. It was planned by Catherine de' Medici, primarily as revenge upon Admiral Coligny, but later being broadened in scope so as to include the slaughter at one blow of all the Huguenot leaders, thus ruining the Protestant party in France. At length persuading the King that the massacre was a measure of public safety, she succeeded in wringing from him his consent, and on the fateful Sunday at daybreak...
...universe is estimated, at the maximum, to be 350,000 light years* in diameter. N. G. C., 6,822 is a million light years away (six quintillion miles) -the most distant object known. The cluster was first observed by the late Dr. E. E. Barnard, but his tele- scope was too weak to resolve it into stars...
...Scope. "It is insisted here [by the railways], that the power to regulate 'interstate commerce is limited to the fixing of reasonable rates and the prevention of those which are discriminatory, and that when these objects are attained the power of regulation is exhausted. This is too narrow a view of the commerce clause. To regulate in the sense intended is to foster, protect and control the commerce with appropriate regard to the welfare of those who are immediately concerned, as well as the public at large, and to promote its growth and insure its safety...
England's splendid isolation is gone. The sea and the British fleet cannot prevent hostile attacks from the air. To meet this situation, so alarming to a country which has not suffered an invasion for nearly 900 years, the Air Ministry has formulated defensive plans far exceeding in scope anything attempted during the War. Huge airdromes, numbers of air squadrons will line the entire coast. London will be protected by a complete loop of such defenses, and the industrial districts will be similarly protected. These plans call for 52 well equipped squadrons within four years. If a Labor Ministry...