Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next year, China leased Kiaochau (in which Tsingtao is situate), with a sphere of influence extending inland for a radius of 30 miles, to Germany for 99 years. The Japanese captured the area in 1914 and, in 1922, returned it to China in accordance with the provision of the Washington Pact...
...iffiaffilffi ffiffiffi Its name was attached to official awards of athletic insignia anywhere from three to six months after the players had won their letters. Upon occasions it made a timid recommendation. It took charge of the Freshman class until first year officers were elected. But beyond that limited sphere it accomplished little. Interest was so slack that it was with difficulty that quorums were obtained for its meetings...
More encouraging and significant is the development of a system of close cooperation between the Dean as representative of the Faculty and the Council as representative of the student body. In this field of liaison lies the Council's true sphere. With further developments and upon the basis of its present record the Council may look forward to an ever increasing prestige...
...that national courts carry out national law, for the law of nations is by no means a fixed and unchanging body of rules. It finds its sanction for the most part only in public opinion, and therefore its very nature requires a close connection with the sphere of politics. Senator Borah's sheerly legalistic ideal world court is a myth and an impossibility...
...term which was well understood. The policy is generally called General Hertzog's, but differs little from that of the late Premier Botha and ex-Premier Smuts. In essence, it divides the country into large tracts, some for the whites, some for the Negroes. Each in his own territorial sphere is to be allowed independently to work out his own salvation; but the matter of employing whites or Negroes in either of the several tracts is to be self-determined. When segregation becomes a fait accompli, the native (the Cape Town native already has the franchise) is to be enfranchised...