Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...utility progress under a Labor ministry, Lord Birkenhead remarked: "The present ministry is for state ownership in the abstract. Yet this same government is helpless to take any steps in that direction...
...Greek generals and Greek Senator Gheka trudged with some embarrassment into the mountain village of Kopra last week, morosely hired a wagon, rattled off to the nearest railway that would take them to Athens...
Firstly Her Majesty recalled that The Hague Conference quarrel ended, if not amicably, at least in a formal agreement by the Great Powers to adopt the Young Plan which will take the payment of German Reparations out of politics and put it on a business basis. "Great is our joy that the Conference achieved this success!" cried Queen Wilhelmina...
...Social Service Committee led by Chairman E. S. Amazeen 31, secures places for several hundred Harvard students yearly to coach boy's clubs in settlement houses of Cambridge and Boston in various indoor sports and diversions. Students also take charge of boy scout groups, classes in naturalization of foreigners, and classes at the Cambridge jail. The judges of the juvenile courts have commended the students for their work in keeping-boys occupied...