Word: broken
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...where the Meleager now in the Berlin Museum was discovered, and the statue placed in the Museum some time ago. The members of the Fine Arts Department were not all agreed that the head originally belonged to the torso. There was a theory that the first head had been broken off and the present one carved at a later date to replace it. To settle the question the head was removed on Saturday afternoon and an investigation made by Professor Moore, Professor Mark and Mr. Palache, instructor in minerology, who examined the crystal formation and lines of cleavage with...
...future international rights. In the convention at Pretoria suzerainty and independent local government were granted together. The Transvaal was not entirely independent, because England had power to make treaties and England was justified in interfering, because the articles stipulated in the convention of 1884 had been broken...
...that in 1877 England's sovereignty over the Transvaal was complete beyond question. Not until the conventions of 1881 and 1884 was home rule given to the Transvaal. He went on to show that these conventions were given upon certain specific conditions and that the Transvaal had repeatedly broken these conditions. From these facts there can be but one conclusion, that by its own act, by the failure to keep the conditions of the grants, the Transvaal has sacrificed the protection of these grants. Great Britain is released from the obligations imposed by her conditional promise not to interfere. Then...
...accept specific reforms and the question came down to one of franchise. The Transvaal asked England to stand by her statesmen and courts, whose opinions were that suzerainty did not exist. England's magnanimity had been tried and found warning. She never claimed that the conventions have been broken nor would she accept the remedies of grievances because she claimed the right of suzerainty. Finally, discord has been made by England and harmony was not aimed at, as the Harvard speakers insist...
...loyalty, the election may miscarry. The committee which ought to have consisted of A and B and C or D may in the end be made up of B, X and Y, for the obvious reason that the majority which should have gone for A, C or D was broken up and scattered...