Word: whole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxious to avoid raising the question in a larger way, in order not to compromise the reparations negotiations which are in progress. The Poles, knowing that the Germans would not be willing to have the question become acute, have been pressing for action, in the hope that the whole problem could be definitively settled by some diluted compromise. As between the Germans and the Poles the former are of much greater importance in European politics and the outcome was a foregone conclusion. The question has again been shelved, as Stresemann desired it should...
...State and Labor, constituted a special commission to report the scientists' findings. This report said: "Although this is the best information we have been able to secure, we wish to. . .state that in our opinion the statistical and historical information available raises grave doubts as to the whole value of these computations...
...extort blackmail. The identity of the Prince was concealed as long as possible under the designation "Mr. A," and it was not until last year that Queen Mary restored the Maharaja to general English esteem by welcoming him publicly to the Royal Box at Ascot. Cinema cameras caught the whole party smiling and chatting amiably, with no trace of squeamishness or shame on anyone's face...
Presently the Government announced that His Most Catholic Majesty had decreed the dissolution of the whole Artillery Corps and the closing of the Royal Artillery Academy, What this means can only be appreciated by recalling that Spain's richest and most potent families have been accustomed to send at least one son to the Artillery Academy, that he might graduate into the Corps, which has been the privileged and aristocratic flower of the whole Army...
...jury, delighted the defense. Reason: the Belle's jewelry was invisible in the Louvre Xray. This indicated that the painter of the Louvre Belle had first laid down metallic flesh tints (impermeable by X-rays) then painted the jewelry over them. The practice of blocking out the whole figure before adding ornament is favored by artists working from live models. But in the Hahn X-ray the jewelry was clearly visible suggesting that the Hahn Belle had first been carefully sketched then colored in separate sections-flesh, fabric, jewelry. This is a practice favored by copyists...