Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countries involved in the war are in the same stage of disruption and that the only solution is mutual help and not an attempt to extract debts, which can never be collected. Repudiation of debt, however, does not necessitate a revolution, and such a revolution would be the worst thing possible at the present time...
...speaking about the possibility of a union between Jews and Christians, Dr. Wise said. "It is a most unfortunate thing that the Jews and Christians have become so separated during the ages and that so great a misunderstanding has grown up between them. The Christians are apt to think only of the Jews who crucified Christ, not the Jews who bore him and trained him, and gave him his religion. The Jews and Christians will never unite and lose their individual religions, but it is most necessary that they co-operate with each other since their religions are so closely...
...Because the use of force against an aggressor in cases where economic sanctions had failed is strangely out of place in the Protocol, which was designed primarily to promote peace. Mr. Chamberlain said that war was in the pathology of international life; and, just as it was a bad thing for men to think too much about the possibility of disease, so it was wrong for the Protocol to stress...
...leading argument for the negative side appears to be that while culture is indispensable to a well rounded personality, at the same time there is such a thing as a "cultural approach to utility" by which culture and practical utility may be combined...
...Reisner seems curiously troubled by the absense of the man's name, but it is really a very simple thing indeed. The choreographers who were to do the engraving couldn't decide how many is there were in the first syllable of his name. Some said four and some said five, but no one really cared very much...