Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much the strength of the Turks as the weakness of the Allies that influenced the course of events. The United States did send two observers, but observers do not influence the Turks. It takes force or a show of force to do so. ... Lord Curzon had to assent to Ismet's statement that the Armenian question was ended by the destruction of the Armenians, and the greatest crime of history was condoned. . . . But as long as the United States persists in its course of isolation ... it ill becomes us to criticize the other Powers. . . . Why had our help...
...soon as peace has been signed at Lausanne, the new overlords of Central Europe, the Little Entente, will send representatives to a conference at Sinaia, in Rumania...
...President of one of these companies is reported as saying that a great fortune awaited anyone who would devise a means of levying toll for broadcasting service. This seems impossible. You send out into the spreading atmosphere a program of music and talk in the form of wireless waves. Anyone who has a radio set may listen to this program, without any charge or without the possibility of another's preventing him. The phonograph company sells you a machine and then sells you records. The radio company sells you a set and then gives you free broadcast service...
...Chronicle, a national Episcopal quarterly edited by the Rev. Alexander G. Cummings, a Poughkeepsie, N. Y., rector, contains in its current issue an article pleading against the completion of the great Cathedral, and urging that the prospective $15,000,000 be used to send out new missionaries, and to raise the small salaries of those already in the foreign field. This appeal has been coldly received by the rector's fellow churchmen. A specific cathedral is more impressive to the mind's eye than an indefinite mission field...
...flavored comment. They represent some man, some group of men, some cause. Certain of them are openly subsidized by the Government. But the Government isn't the only keeper of the French press. It is said that any nation which wants to float a loan in France must first send checks to the French dailies. It is known that the Tzar's Government had on its payroll the most respectable Paris papers. And during the Versailles Conference it is asserted that the Italian Government subsidized several French journals to support its claim to Fiume...