Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read in the newspapers, the frequent errors of whose reporting make him hesitate to commit himself. However, on the general subject of the proposed naval equality of Great Britain and the United States, Captain Wygant said that naval officers in general were in favor of any plan that would produce peace, "but perhaps naval officers more than others realize the sacrifices that are entailed by not being ready when any emergency may arise...
...Naval officers in general are heartily in favor of the success of a conference which would bring about parity as between the navies of England and the United States, provided that due regard is given to any reasonable danger that might threaten from any other direction...
...little deeper consideration of the case will show these explanations to be fallacious. The man who would do so desperate a deed of wickedness was a man playing for highest stakes: he was trying to catch Jimmy at work. Notice too that this theory accounts for the nonchalance with which Mayor Walker treated the whole affair: his conscience was clear; he need fear...
...this time, Groucho's make-up was completely erased, and, after he had donned his horn-rimmed glasses, he looked a strange mixture of the legal and the professorial. One would almost have decided that there wasn't a trace of the typical actor about him until the eye paused doubtfully at the spectacle of pleated trousers...
...teamed with the above pair on the first string backfield yesterday afternoon. This is a possible starting quartet, but there is little likelihood of this combination's going into action together. Gilligan has a very good chance of remaining with Putnam and Harper, but that is pure speculation. Who would replace Huguley under these conditions is a wide open question...