Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alger Hiss 21, chairman of the Council, will preside at the meeting. Throughout the year the Council has met once a month to discuss questions of international interest, treating international law, prohibition, disarmament, and similar problems...
Result: The Italian Minister at Vienna, Signor Giacinto Auriti immediately left for Rome to inform Il Duce of precisely what had occurred. Rumor visioned a diplomatic break between Italy and Austria, but more likely loomed the prospect that Il Duce would administer to Austria a tongue lashing similar to that which he indulged in against Germany when Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann flayed the Italianization of Lower Tyrol...
...years, that ten other instrumentalists and singers* had earning capacities which equaled or exceeded Paderewski's. He also notes: "One young pianist of quite recent reputation was paid $12,000 for a week at a movie theatre. Thereupon, Kreisler refused an offer of $15,000 for a similar adventure, not on the ground that it was beneath his artistic dignity, but because the sum was below his weekly earnings in recitals...
Secretary Kellogg's plan is to draw up a group of similar treaties with Japan, outlawing every kind of war, making the United States a kind of radial centre of world peace. France has declined to enter upon any such agreement, and is confident that the other great powers will be equally unwilling to agree on a pact which would so openly flout Article X of the League of Nations. This article guarantees that the territorial integrity and political independence of member states is to be preserved against external aggression. France has other objections in her Locarno security pledges...
...inch thin. (Human hair varies between 6/1000 and 126/10,000 of an inch in diameter.) And he used 350,000 volts of current. Electrons hurtled through the nickel foil, speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They made minerals fluoresce, killed bacteria and insects, burned a rabbit's ears (TIME...