Word: yoke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ante) by refusing to accept the League's adjudication of the Mosul border, and demanding that a plebiscite be taken, and the whole matter reopened. 2) China: Chao Hsin-Chu, Chinese Charge d'Affaires at London, begged the League to deliver his country from "the yoke of extra-territoriality." 3) Autria: a protest was entered against the Austrian budget, as set by the League, it being claimed that State employes would be paid less than starvation wages under the present arrangement...
...have a more than even chance of partial success. Nevertheless, most people now . . . sincerely wish that they had not talked so much about the blessings of hurrying back to par. It is in this chastened mood that the British public will submit their necks once more to the golden yoke-as a prelude, perhaps, to throwing it off forever at not a distant date...
Those who fear the advent of a militarist of the old school must remember that the powers of Germany's president are so limited that even if this were a great national attempt to throw off the Allied yoke, it could result in nothing but failure. Von Hindenburg is too much of a political realist not to see that submission is the only salvation of Germany. He will adhere more closely to the Versailles Treaty than Europe half realizes...
...during all this, the Sophomores, who were irking under the yoke of required Greek, had not been sleeping. After playing the part of sympathetic onlookers for some time, they decided to take advantage of the situation and demanded that the irksome requirement be abolished. More disturbances occurred and Prayers were quite regularly interrupted...
...Might we not, without fear of injuring the feelings of the City of Cambridge (which we can ill afford to do), might we not offer Memorial Hall to the Irish Republicans? There is a small deserving. Freedomloving God-fearing group whom the cruelty of England has put under the yoke. But they are still alive. And here would be a drill hall! What could be nobler than for us to further the cause of liberty in this...