Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience where and upon whom judicious pressure by the King can make itself felt. On the Continent this is no less true than in England and Dutchmen, for example, consider themselves most fortunate to have so ripe a sovereign as Wilhelmina, whose wisdom and sagacity in her constitutional sphere are immense. Contrary to some mistaken impressions overseas, King George in his last years was a terror to certain British statesmen because of His Majesty's quiet strength of character and experience in getting his way by imperceptible means. He figured largely in setting up the ingenious contraption known...
...years of age, in 1919, it seems quite probable that both the aunt (Victoria) and nephew (Prince John) inherited this physical weakness from some remote ancestor, either on the Danish side (Queen Alexandra) or the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Prince Consort) side. It is not true, as the Sphere says, that Victoria was very like her mother, Queen Alexandra. Princess Victoria (I have seen her close several times at charity bazaars in London) was very like her father, Edward VII, not in the least like her beautiful mother, Alexandra. Princess Victoria had the prominent, rather staring blue eyes...
...Covenant of the League of Nations be law, then in law Ethiopia and Haile Selassie are right and Italy and Benito Mussolini are wrong. The only trouble is that that portion of the white race represented by 44,000,000 Italians has opened hostilities and in the sphere of law Italy contends-much too late for popular acceptance-that under the League Covenant, membership in the League of Nations is barred to states in which slavery still nourishes, as it unquestionably does in Ethiopia. Therefore, argues Italy, the original mistake of admitting Ethiopia to the League should be corrected...
...Department on the firm ground it rests upon today. Accepted as a valuable, even indispensable division of the University now, apparently there were tremendous obstacles in the path of its far-seeing founders. "Even so great a man as Francis Parkman," says Spalding, "an artist in his own sphere, is said to have been fond of exclaiming in Corporation meetings, after reading the annual budget, "Musica delenda...
...Kaufmann '38 will be the second speaker for Harvard. He will point out that cooperation with the League, a dangerous experiment, must involve the United States in war and would produce in the national sphere, inevitably, harmful economical and political results. Each speech will be ten minutes long with a rebuttal by Sullivan, of five minutes...