Word: temperal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution of her financial and industrial difficulties. The financing and rehabilitation of industry are so difficult, and the future is so obscure, that it would be rash for anybody to say what the outcome will be; but in the most vital factor, which is the temper, industry, and integrity of the people in these fundamental respects, I saw a great deal of ground for optimism. If it is true, and I believe it is, that the essential thing is that the people should show resolution to work hard and pay their debts, then the future of France...
...translation of M. Rostchakovsky's Open Letter to the Russian People is something of an achievement. It is such evidence as this that will enable the world at large to have some understanding of the temper of the Russian people and may help to make it realize that Russia intends to settle her own internal problems without foreign interference. Set down in black and white this seems a logical enough desire, but most of the world's statesmen have regarded it as an unwarrantable assumption...
...between the assembly and the council, which practically means a fight between the large and the small nations. This, then, is the first great trial. Can the League, with all its variety of interests, work together in harmony for the interests of the world as a whole? The temper of this first assembly will go far to show how much the League can be depended upon; like a barometer it will predict the character of the future of the League...
...quite possible for an editor to speak strongly without losing his temper. (Losing one's temper is a strong Irish characteristic...
...Always remember that an editor only loses by losing his temper...