Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither directly nor indirectly concerned. We can say without fear of contradiction that we have kept the Locarno Treaty not only in letter but in spirit. We have been absolutely loyal and clear, and the rights on our side are 100%. The existence of a demilitarized zone on our German frontier constituted protection behind which we felt less exposed. If it is true that no country in the world today is able to assure its own security alone, it is even surer when applied to a small nation, for which respect for international law assumes capital importance...
...Bruins may disconcert the Crimson five tonight with their fast-breaking game, but if Harvard recovers as quickly as it did from the famous Yale zone defence system there is little to fear...
...Stock Yards and the Chicago Board of Trade, however, stuck to Central Time because their spheres of business interest lay in that zone. The Chicago Federation of Labor, claiming that under "fast" time its members would have to grope their way to work in total darkness all winter, set out to get 500,000 names on a petition to have the time question put to referendum. And the railroads, whose 13,000 Chicago schedules had been thrown askew, awaited the outcome of an Interstate Commerce Commission investigation to determine on what time basis the carriers should operate...
Such a semi-official story caused a rash of proposed rescue expeditions, the latest being announced last week by Explorer LaVarre. Four have actually got under way. One, financed by the American Legion, set out from the Canal Zone with lavish equipment, is now deep in the jungle in canoes. Tom Roch popped up again, went off in search by foot with another U. S. adventurer. A Dutch expedition started along another route to the unknown interior. Most publicized expedition of all was that started by Pilot Art Williams, who taught Redfern...
Kirkland House Dramatic Club will present its first playreading in the Junior Common Room this Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The plays to be read are "In the Zone," by Eugene O'Neil and "Great Catherine," by George Bernard Shaw...