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...Lausanne Conference took a temporary lease of life when Ismet Pasha, head of the Turkish Delegation, and Eleutherios Venezelos, head of the Greek Delegation, had a verbal tiff. The trouble was over a discussion of a commercial convention. It had been agreed that the convention between Turkey and the Great Powers should last for five years, and only two years for Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Greece. Ismet Pasha suddenly announced that, as Turkey did not do much business with Rumania and Yugoslavia, he would be willing to let the period stand at two years, but in view of the fact...
...nodding their heads and proclaiming that the new ruling was made because rumors, unheard by the public, of determined opposition to the President's reciprocal proposal have come to the government. When Great Britain, insisting upon the universal three-mile limit, has come off victorious so recently in its tiff with Russia, acceptance by her of a special twelve-mile limit would seem highly improbable. On the other hand President Harding has never yet been forward about publishing an international proposal without a good measure of hope for success. The agreement to publish the terms of treaties does not preclude...
...would be too early to talk about intercollegiate championships, even if claimants for Crimson honors should wish to do so, but Harvard's hold on the eastern title certainly was not weakened by the result of the tiff with the Nassau outfit...
...Harvard's team was not strong. Princeton defeated Harvard 36 tiff 6; Yale beat Harvard 48 to 0. The Yale Princeton game was stopped by darkness. This deprived Yale of the championship not awarded...
...because the husband objects to such little attentions, he declares that the poor man, by such objection has used the wife "shockingly ill," and therefore, she is freed from her vows. But unfortunately, true love never runs smooth, even with another man's wife, and Boswell soon had a tiff with his mistress. Their reconciliation he describes as follows: "I held her dear hand; her eyes were full of passion; I took her in my arms; I told her what made me miserable; she was pleased to find it was no worse. We renewed our fondness." Supporting somebody else...