Word: artificiales
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U. S. women whose ideas of a fashion opening are gathered from cinema or from the circuses which U. S. cloak & suiters stage in large hotels, would be disappointed by a genuine Parisian premiere. There are no orchestras, no spotlights, no elegant young men in cutaways. The rooms are elaborately...
"We are in the presence of an incipient outbreak of economic war with the weapons of depreciated currencies, artificial barriers to trade by quotas, reciprocal trade agreements, discriminations, nationalistic campaigns to consume homemade goods and a score of tactics . . . each of which adds to world confusion and dangers. . . . We find...
There is a further and more important objection than these, however, to the very idea which the Poetry Room embodies. It stands for an artificial sentiment about poetry as a kind of writing which requires to be set off by itself and cradled in an arty setting of red velvet...
Three years ago when Professor Lipman found crystals in lifeless agar-agar taking the forms of living bacteria, he boomed: "It is fascinating and irresistible to speculate as to whether or not these artificial bacilli may, under the proper environmental conditions, take on the properties of living cells. . . ."
¶That Japan finds the Great Powers' doctrine of the "open door" in the Far East to have been nullified by events: "We see that all countries are busily engaged in erecting artificial trade barriers. ... As a result of this policy of the closed door, which is now practiced...