Word: disruption
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representatives of four. Our feeling on this subject has been based not so much on a fear that university representation in halls will be a divisive factor in the life of the College, as that the emasculating of the class as a fulcrum of government and social intercourse will disrupt a hallowed and highly admirable feature of our society...
Despite his statement Berlin's Boess was involved in a scandal last week, a scandal that threatened to disrupt the entire Berlin municipal government, caused politicians to wince at the name Sklarek...
...competitors, and endeavors to prove that the growth of American trade has not been at the expense of that of other nations. In what is by all odds the most important chapter in the book he claims that it will not be the source of rivalries which might disrupt the peace of the world, because the increase in American exports has been almost entirely in specialties such as typewriters and automobiles in the production of which we are almost without competitors. The theory is open to objections, but it makes an ingenious justification of the expansionist policy that has dominated...
...Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once it appeared that the chief thing all these assembled Excellencies wished to accomplish was the avoidance of controversial subjects. They positively dared not risk having debates of any heat for fear of warming up international animosities likely to disrupt the work of the Second Dawes Committee at Paris (see above) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan. As a result of this ticklish situation- with billions in the balance-the achievements of the League statesmen at Geneva last week were only these: 1) They debated ad infinitum and post...
Conceivably, however, in the event of Germany's default the Great Powers would find it necessary to themselves to pay up the reparations bonds, if only to stave off a crash that might disrupt the fiscal world...