Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the League road is thus proving so infinitely long, why not take the Soviet short cut? Solemnly Comrade Litvinov concluded: "The Soviet Government declares it is ready to abolish all military forces in accordance with its draft convention as soon as a similar decision is passed and simultaneously carried out by other States. The Soviet Government asks the other Governments represented here if they also are ready...
...making enormous profits, profits which they could not possibly expect to draw in any European country or America." She adds: "An ideal concession is that of a Danish button company which makes buttons from pressed blood obtained from Russian slaughter houses, and has acquired a fortune in a very short time...
James G. Dunton, in C'EST LA GUERRE (Stratford Co., Boston, 1928, $2.50) has collected a group of short stories written by men who actually went through the war. Written some ten years after "the recent unpleasantness", the stories show how hazy the unpleasant and grim side of the war has become, though leaving still the scores of amusing incidents to color the author's reminiscences. Although all the stories deal with the war, there is a wide variety of style and type. The collection is a good one and makes an excellent change in diet for the reader...
...supremacy among the recently rearranged A, B, C, and D crews by a regulation mile and three quarters test. The starting point for the crews will be determined by the direction and force of the wind. If the Basin proves unnavigable, the four eights will be launched upstream for short practice brushes...
...competition will last a week or ten days. As the Red Book is starting late this year it is necessary to have such a short competition. As a result, the selecting of sub-chairmen and committee men will perforce be based on immediate action of candidates...