Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday the first real step towards unfillment of Secretary Kellogg's proposed treaty for the renunciation of war was taken when the British House of Lords adopted the resolution "that the proposals for the outlawry of war by the United States should have prompt and favorable consideration." Following France's suggestion that the United States sound out the powers on the question, this recommendation alters the proposal from a forlorn hope to a promising opportunity...
...This war to end flies will not be won without overcoming stubborn resistance Travellers in Italy this summer may expect to witness at any time battles between great swarms of embattled flies and heroic groups of warriors, protected by a barricade of fly-paper and yielding swatters with deadly effect. But the chief danger is to the Premier himself. So far he has managed to protect himself from would-be assassins, but no defense can save the man for whose blood a whole face of flying avengers will soon be thirsting...
...years president, and since 1923 board chairman of the Equitable Trust Co., director of numerous other banking and railroad companies, banking colleague of Otto Hermann Kahn and Paul Drennan Cravath, holder of decorations from the French, Italian and Rumanian Governments for rehabilitation work after the War. Last week he died, of angina pectoris, suddenly at his Manhattan office, just two years to the day after he pried the first brick from the old Mills building on whose Broad Street site the Equitable's new 42-story building now stands...
...finally Bangkok. To and from this last post he traveled by way of America, Japan, India, collecting data for his latest book. Born in Russia, of French parents (1888), he was educated at Oxford, studied law and political science in Paris, is a prolific writer, notably of post-War character sketches. Sleek of face and hair, he looks still younger than...
...teams went around the batting order. In this inning either two or three runs were scored for the CRIMSON and forced the Princetonian hurlet behind the bench. The third and fourth frames were filled with the crack of bats as the Crimson willows, second only to the war clubs of the battling Princetonians, struggled hard to stop the batting order from going around. By the fifth inning the umpires had retired into conference to consider cancelling the game because of camp grounds, but the CRIMSON cohorts, being two runs behind, stuck to their bats through the four remaining frames second...