Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ROAD TO ROME-All's fair in love and war-particularly Jane Cowl...
Reason. European (and especially German) chemical exports have dwindled to an almost negligible figure since the War. In recent years they have recovered some of their old prestige. However, U. S. producers last year exported chemicals worth $171,000,000. The combine move is a vigorous effort by Europe to strengthen its position in the chemical industry...
Remarks by Mr. Spender: ¶"Americans are the most talked about and the most criticized people in the world." ¶"Undoubtedly true that the press quarrels which raged in Europe before the War contributed heavily to the fear, suspicion and embitterment which finally brought about the great disaster...
...tribe. There is pirate blood in their veins, repeating itself with fine atavism. Hate later turns to vicious admiration when Elsa sees Bayliss theatrically sitting a new pony, making it rear, yanking it up until there is scarleted froth on its bit irons. He goes to college, to war, to the devil; returns, as he says of one of his girls- healthy, clean, pretty. And his tribe dominates the landscape, roistering, riding hard. They have always succeeded, always dominated, always failed, in a hot-blooded cycle: "The Carew men have always taken what they wanted, where they wanted it," says...
...before the Massachusetts branch of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Associations Except for the doubtful precedent of The Hague, which proved to be not even an annoyance to the activities of Mars, the League has been forced to learn solely through its own mistakes. The Russo-Polish War, the Upper Silesla affair, the massacre at Smyrna the occupation of Corfu the Geneva protocol the Greco-Bulgarian frontier altercation, and the squabble during last year between Brazil and Spain have been the annual causes of "I told you sols" from the irreconcilables of post-bellum days: largely because the meetings...