Word: shells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Straightway the Minister of Commerce, suave attorney Maurice Bokanowski, rose to defend the bill. He did not deny that the Cabinet had received protests and intimations from Standard Oil of New Jersey, Royal Dutch Shell and Anglo-Persian Oil. Rising superior to this fact, he cried: "The State does not know the importers! The State is merely anxious to provision the Nation with oil to the best advantage...
After prolonged debate the Chamber concurred in this view, voting 335 to 185 for the bill in its new form. If passed by the Senate, it will leave the Standard, Shell and Anglo-Persian oil firms in virtual dominance of the French market, though theoretically curbed by a new licensing commission with limited powers...
...study of human psychology. Man is now regarded as a higher member of the animal kingdom psychologically as well as physiologically. On account of the greater complexity of the human brain, more types of reaction are possible but the underlying mechanics are the same. The recent work on shell shock has demonstrated what harm can arise from badly conditioned reflexes...
Said the Americus (Ga.) Times Recorder: "We rather think it a case of religious fanaticism running wild. Pardue is . . . wrapped in his little shell of self-conceit . . . he used underhand methods . . . he soiled the cloth he wears. And what good has his babbling accomplished? . . . He created a furor in his woodland village and he had the pleasure of seeing his name and picture in the papers. . . . For a few days he was a big pig in a little...
...during the first month of the war. For several years the construction of its successor has been in progress, and now the new building is almost ready for occupancy. Beautiful the new structure is, and larger and more convenient than the old, but it is a mockery, a hollow shell that has lost the priceless treasure that once made Louvain the pride of a nation. The manuscripts and volumes, all too scanty, that remained as the inheritance of the present world from the mighty Charles V and Thomas a Kempis are gone--"destroyed by German fury", some would...