Word: unraveler
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...meeting of the International Confederation of League of Nations Societies, Count von Bernstorff (German Ambassador to the U. S. before and during the first two and a half years of the War) said that the League idea was growing in Germany and that its machinery would be necessary to unravel the reparations tangle...
...passive resistance must cease, second, that there shall be no examination by outsiders of Germany's capacity to pay, and finally, that any abatement of France's claim on Germany must be met by a corresponding abatement of the English and American claims on France. If Mr. Baldwin can unravel this tangle or can cut this Gordian knot, he will rank as the greatest statesman--or the greatest diplomat--of the twentieth century...
...representatives and vote in favor of their own bills. Indeed, the possibilities of disguise are so endless that the idea is bound to spread. It only remains for the lobbies to disguise themselves as the Ladies' Auxiliary to complete a tangle which even the great Sherlock Holmes could never unravel without the aid of a false nose...
...first two tests were concerned with the powers of perception and observation. A man was told to pick out the smallest square in a bevy of squares, to mark words with similar meanings in a jumbled collection, to unravel sentences. One test required the student to pick the proper answer to a question out of four possible ones given. For example...
...that looks beyond earth for some sign of hope, and in the resignation of that other soul that finds in every triumph and defeat the fulfilment of its own destiny. The thought is, perhaps, somewhat too deeply hidden by the words, but we do not begrudge the effort to unravel it. Mr. Bates's poem "The Sleeper," develops an original idea. The metre chimes well with the sentiment of the tale; the lines convey the folly and the utter hopelessness of the magicians wish to stop the progress of time. The number closes with the charming bit of verse "Vanitas...