Word: waved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such is the evil of volubility. For offended fairies wave their wands only to vanish. To the motto, "silence is golden", there might well be added "Speak not until you are spoken to" Speechlessness is still a Sphinx's greatest asset...
...effect of good government in a city is not limited to the confines of that corporation. The example spreads. Just now, there is a wave of enthusiasm in favor of better city government spread through all sections of the country. Our people are desirous of putting an end to what Mr. Bryce described as 'the most conspicuous failure in the United States...
...country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only eight years have passed since then, but now the United States in undertaking to endorse an experiment intended to secure a lasting peace, is insisting emphatically on all its national privileges and prerogatives. Yet at that time, the cause of permanent peace was thought...
...crime wave in the United States is only a term emanating from the fact that in America we are inclined to legislative action, and have legislatures in our cities, towns, and states," declared Robert von Moschzisker, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...League of Nations, and was adviser to the Washington International Labor Conference two years ago. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost exponents of the League and the World Court in any country. Recently Professor Hudson has been actively engaged in supporting the World Court in the wave of interest which has resulted from the question going before the Senate...