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...Harnessing German industrialists to the yoke of reparations payments, which they have hitherto evaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPARATIONS: The Judgment | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

...does not yoke his steeds so remote from the Yard and the Square, that we on this occident shore, whither also Harvard's alumni have ventured, are insensate to your ninety beautiful years. To think that your ninety years look back to that little day when this great western domain that has since contributed generously to Harvard's generations was scarcely known but in name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIBUTE TO ELIOT DEALS IN LATIN SUPERLATIVES | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

...Government. Premier Macdonald's health was reported to be causing grave alarm. The double yoke of the Premiership and the Foreign Secretaryship were said to be aggravating has already poor state of health. His colleagues in the Cabinet want him to surrender the foreign portfolio. Meanwhile leaders in the House of Commons acted sympathetically toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Feb. 25, 1924 | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...should call the wedding-ring the yoke-ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books : Books : Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

...honorable advancement. And later, when the New York Police Force had managed to quell the open warfare popular in the Bowery, it became the custom for warlike gentlemen imbued with the ideals of liberty and justice to go south and help the ineffective Latin-Americans throw off the yoke of the oppressor. Often enough, these soldiers of fortune ended their romantic careers against an adobe wall, facing a dark-skinned firing squad. More often, after winning battles for one faction or another they found themselves deserted with no alternative but basis retreat to New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE | 1/23/1924 | See Source »

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