Word: without
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Without warning blood was spilled at Aux Cayes, south coast coffee port. Fifteen hundred natives marched to the town out of the wild back country to join the strike. They were met by a detachment of 20 Marines who told them the strike was over, warned them to disperse. Instead, the Haitians, armed only with machetes, clubs, field tools, attempted to rush the town. The Marines volleyed over the mob's head, then scattered them with 250 rounds of direct fire. Five Haitians were killed, 20 wounded. One Marine was bitten in the hand...
Warned the Commission: "The Pennroad Co., by acquiring stock control of a railroad, can bring it under common control with the Pennsylvania without itself controlling or being controlled by the latter carrier as such. . . . Common control can be effected by a chain, one vital link in which is made up of the control exercised, directly or indirectly, over two or more corporations by individuals. . . . [This] may result in the suppression of competition...
...said, statistics carefully cooked by the League of Nations are hurled at our heads enumerating peace establishments, which mean nothing. . . . The League is in danger of failure, through being run by flapdoodlers! It has done nothing but sit for ten years. It is the old question of petrol [gasoline] without a machine. There's nothing left of the League today but perfume...
...Corbusier's hypothesis is that man, a reasonable being who pursues his way with a purpose, will build his city on the principles of geometry -"the means created by ourselves whereby we perceive the external world and express the world within us." The Corbusier battle cry is Order; without it tomorrow's metropolises will be but romantic jumbles as are contemporary London, New York and all Continental cities. According to him, city planners must use architectural physic and surgery. Obstacles will be man's persistent following of the least resistance line, his respect for the past...
...careless about it and forgot it one day. When Leo Diegel beat him last year, Hagen's manager had to tell the committee where the cup was. "I don't know," he said. "It's hard enough getting him out of bed in the morning without picking up after him." Playing unevenly at Hillcrest Country Club near Los Angeles last week, Hagen was put out in the semifinal by nervous, capable Diegel. John Farrell put out Al Watrous who was his best friend when they used to caddy together on courses in Westchester County...