Word: vias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sports. Football Coach Fielding H. Yost tells how deaf-mutes use sign-signals where others shout. In the "Jere to Libe" volume Helen Wills relates how lawn tennis was introduced to the U. S.?via Bermuda, in 1874. "There was some difficulty in getting the [first tennis] outfit through the custom house, as no one knew what...
Five-Power Disarmament. Referring to progress made in his naval disarmament pourparlers with President Hoover via Ambassador Dawes the Prime Minister raised an international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling...
...justice to your article, otherwise quite correct, I should add that 75% of my orders are routed via steamer, even from points several hundred miles inland from Atlantic seaboard cities, for economical reasons...
...official note handed to the Ger man Ambassador at Moscow for transmission to the Chinese Government via the German Ambassador at Nanking the Soviet Government declared in part: ". . . While doing their utmost to prevent the crossing of the border by Soviet troops, the Soviet Government holds that the Chinese author ities must disarm the White guard detach ments and prevent all possible raids on Soviet territory by Chinese forces. Other wise the guilt of further complications caused by new raids will be entirely on the Nanking Government...
...beer dubbed Proteus, ever-changing old man of the sea. The second was the Breslau Student Socialist Society, of which he soon became chairman. Finding one night, that the police were on his trail for editing a radical weekly, he left for Switzerland, radical retreat, then for New York via steerage where he was admitted past the Statue of Liberty after some demur over his appearance. Living with a friend in Brooklyn, he found work two hours away as $12-a-week draughtsman for solemn, pouchy-eyed Rudolf Eichemeyer of Yonkers, himself a political refugee turned manufacturer of hat machinery...