Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dominion of New Zealand...
...Dominion of Canada...
...backers of the plan hold that the United States should be liberal to her veterans. Canada, they say, has awarded bonuses averaging $420; but the pay of a Canadian soldier during the war cannot be compared to that of a Yankee doughboy. The Dominion is making a some what tardy retribution for what she probably now considers parsimonious treatment during the war. War time generosity has its advantages; peace time must bring a curtailment of all expenditures. We cannot fool ourselves into believing that the money does not come from our pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means...
...death," said Professor Bailey, "brought instant response. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory, telegraphed, 'A great, unselfish man has gone. Our flag is at half-mast,' Hale, Director of the Solar Observatory, Mt. Wilson, 'Am greatly shocked and grieved, and hasten to send sincere sympathy.' Klotz, Director of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa. 'The world has lost one of its great astronomical lights, and deans of science.' Plaskett, Director of the new Canadian Observatory, at Victoria, 'The news came to Mrs. Plaskett and me as a great shock and deep personal loss. The loss to Astronomy and Science is inestimable...
...unfortunate as it is improbable. The two countries naturally have supplementary products of industry and agriculture; their freer interchange across land boundaries which are purely artificial and water boundaries which are not barriers but highways should be furthered. Financially, we are rivalling England as Canada's largest creditor; the Dominion with its rich natural resources and universal prosperity will naturally receive a larger and larger share of our surplus capital. Politically, we can have nothing but good-will for Canada's free and democratic government, which is in many respects a model for our own. But without impugning Canada...