Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scope for trade which must be found to absorb the exports of Germany, represented by her reparations, if you can get them, which absorption alone will enable reparations to be paid without bringing us face to face with some of the keenest competition which we shall ever have suffered...
...Story. Outlines- of History - of Science - of Art large, impressive looking books - copiously illustrated - well printed - mental bouillon cubes for an age that takes its information like its breakfast cereal, on the run, and, if possible, predigested - another century may find, perhaps, the whole scope of human knowledge boiled down and salted away in one magnificent, laconic Outline of Outlines, supplanting colleges and five-foot shelves alike. At any rate, here is the first volume of The Outline of Literature - 294 pages covering the rise and progress of human letters from the first books in the world...
...Government order ruled that all nationalized industries, including the Singer Sewing Machine Co. at Vladivostok, must remain national property; other concerns, even though they might come within the scope of the law, may remain in private hands...
...extra year is allowed for actual dismemberment. The Deputies assembled in the Chamber to vote on the ratification anxiously insisted that the Treaty should in no way limit the construction of submarines and auxiliary craft. The Government made it quite clear on several occasions that the scope of the Treaty affected only the construction of capital ships...
...evidence that finance is international in scope were needed, it would be strikingly provided by the failures cf the Stock Exchange firms of Knauth, Nachod & Kuhne and Zimmerman & Forshay. Both were old and for years substantial concerns, specializing in German securities exchange, and engaged in a banking rather than a stock commission business. The causes for these failures are therefore quite different from those behind the recently announced insolvencies of Curb, Consolidated and nonmember houses, and can directly or indirectly be traced principally to the sensational fall in the German mark...