Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans through England, France, Italy, and no doubt several other countries, will really produce much imprint on minds either young or old. Tours carefully planned to include the greatest possible number of cathedrals, picture galleries and museums; hotels crowded with other Americans; shops bearing the sign: 'Here English is spoken'-all these things are very pleasant and entertaining, but it may surely be doubted whether they lead to that understanding of the mind of another nation which must lie at the basis of international understanding. "This is not the kind of education needed by Americans today...
...were touring Italy grew needlessly uneasy over headlines in U. S. newspapers: "Vesuvius Again in Eruption . . . Vesuvius Spurts Lava." It was but a minor disturbance in the central crater, indistinguishable by day from below, a cause of no alarm to the government volcano laboratory. Few days pass without some sign of life from Vesuvius, usually a thin column of smoke. Small upheavals of rock and lava do not overflow outside the old crater, which was formed by the last eruption of violence, in 1906. History knows of but two truly cataclysmic eruptions of Vesuvius-in 79 A. D. (reported...
...claiming from us payment not of a debt of commerce but of war. You know, as we do, that our treasury is empty. In such a case the debtor must sign promissory notes, and that is just what you are asking us to do, and yet each of us ought to believe that settlement in cash will be made on the day fixed...
Brisk citizens of Middleboro, Mass., paused startled last week before a neatly lettered sign...
...return a profit is expected to be borne by loans from the U. S. and allied nations. Sir Frederick Whyte: "It is very doubtful whether the united armies of Asia could ever be set in motion. Such an enterprise implies a unity of purpose of which there is no sign, and therefore, to add up the millions of China and India and then multiply them by the power of Japan, is the arithmetic of bedlam...