Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present tense and fruitless state of affairs. On the other hand it will lay their nationals and their interests open to suffering and trespass if not destruction by the anti-foreign sentiment abroad in China. If the powers stand strictly by their treaty rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within a few months or years be faced with the alternative of using force or losing their foothold in the country. In that case Soviet Russia would be ready to step into their place, posing as the friend...
...bills to purchase the same things, and many a dollar bill now has to be handled where silver change sufficed before; 2) the growth of the automobile industry has meant that garage men and gasoline vendors with oily hands touch much more money. There is nothing like oil to weaken the fibre and make a bill flabby, dirty...
...commented. Said the first: "[Increased] fortification of Hawaii may justly be taken as an indication of the Americans' ill will toward Japan." Said the second: "Our nationals now realize that the disarmament conference at Washington was a secret plot between the two groups of the Anglo-Saxons to weaken the fighting strength of the Japanese Navy. Hawaii would afford a splendid base for American naval operations, as Singapore would for the English...
...center, has been raised to the Freshman squad, and while this will weaken the dormitory team considerably, several substitutes are available...
...Allowing Congress to pass legislation which the Supreme Court has declared to be unconstitutional", continued Professor Babbitt, "is equivalent to declaring the constitution void. La Follette represents, therefore, part of a dangerous trend in this country to discredit the judiciary, and ultimately to undermine and weaken the veto power of the constitution upon popular impulse...