Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania also hangs on the ragged edge of Republican candidacy, with a substantial public following but no political organization of national scope...
...Swift argued that if the Government has power to maintain accountants in his office, it could do likewise in all other business offices in the country-which would be " unthinkable." He also implied that Secretary Wallace has construed the recent Packers and Stockyards Act to be much broader in scope than the text of the Act justifies...
...three year report (1920-23) of the organization shows the type of aid given. More than 22,000,000 meals were served, 400,000 articles of clothing and 70,000 books were distributed; and 430 tons of fuel were furnished. The type of work done and the scope of the field is steadily widening. The European Student Relief organization in its report tells what $5 will do abroad. This sum will purchase in many parts of Europe daily food for 100 students or two pairs of shoes or a suit of clothes: it will pay a professor's salary...
...even greater than Hamlet, although it is very difficult to compare the two. It depends very much on the temperament of the actor. My own tends toward the Greek drama. The character of Hamlet is greater in scope than that of Oedipus; its philosophy is more profound and infinitely more intricate. The character of Oedipus is less complicated, less subtle. It is simple and straightforward, and for that very reason Sophocles has made it more impressive in the vastness of its emotions...
...Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes declined to participate in the conference, because France had limited the scope of the conference to Germany's " present" capacity to pay reparations (meaning what Germany can pay from now until Jan. 1, 1930). This renders the conference useless, as at least a six-year moratorium of reparation payments must be granted to Germany. Furthermore, French insistence on keeping the Ruhr problem entirely out-side the orbit of the conference was understood to have been another factor unacceptable to the U. S. Government. President Coolidge ("the taciturn") described the conference as restricted...