Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice with the social work it was intended to perform. In the eyes of resident underclassmen, P.B.H. has come to be looked on as a self-sufficient commuters unit, comparable to a House, and, hence, an organization with which they can have no proper connection except as a competitor. Settlement work, child welfare, boy guidance, all the proper functions of Phillips, have been so subordinated to its commuter relationship that the residents have lost sight of, and interest in, these legitimate phases of the Houses's activities. More, the physical capacity of the building has been taxed until the former...
...Realmleader Hitler sidetrack Britain and France into a more mutual pact against unprovoked air aggression in Western Europe, leaving the Eastern Locarno barren and betrayed. What the Soviet Union fears is that some day Europe's Capitalist Powers will realize where their interest lies, namely in a drastic settlement of Eastern Europe's frontier problems at Bolshevik Russia's expense...
...three month period set by the League of Nations for the settlement of the Chaco dispute has expired. As a result of Paraguay's refusal to submit the matter to arbitration she has automatically withdrawn from the League...
...arbitration. Her army at Villa Montes holds a strategic position relative to Bolivia's oil fields Even though she has broken the League covenant thus theoretically exposing herself to international coercion, Paraguay, it would seem, prefers the bird in hand to the possible outcome of the League's peaceful settlement...
...infantry officer, he returned to the stage, was made a life member in the Comedie. Irked by that august organization's politics, he found in 1926 that it was harder to get out than to get in. He bought himself free with a 200,000-franc settlement. His record: more appearances in de Musset than any other actor...