Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provides for the abolition of capital punishment, except when a state of martial law has been proclaimed. Real estate can be owned by Rumanian subjects only, and cannot be confiscated as a punishment. Election to the Chamber of Deputies is by " universal, direct and equal franchise." Equality of the sexes was not recognized, but the political rights of women are to be defined. Class distinction and use of titles are prohibited. The press is free in every respect. Freedom of assembly and of education is assured. Free schools are provided; attendance at a State or private school is compulsory...
...which all the students share, and undergraduates criticisms are perhaps worth considering. These criticisms are few: it is recognized that the only fair basis of choice for a scholarly society is scholarship, and that non-intellectual activities cannot be counted except when the scholastic records of two candidates are equal. But the complaint may reasonably be made that the society is too limited in its numbers...
...feeling some apprehension. He suffered some from Zeppelin raids in the great war, and now he intends to play safe. It is rather to his credit that he has not accepted a request made by Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of Aerial Navigation, for the building of an air force equal to that owned by any other nation. Instead, he hopes to arrive at an agreement with his rivals much the same as that reached by the Washington naval pact for marine armaments...
...British note accused the Bolsheviki of violating the terms of the Anglo-Russian commercial agreement, and, of course, with seizing the trawler. The note was a virtual ultimatum, which incensed the Soviet Government. "Don't dictate," say the Bolsheviki, "we are ready to negotiate on equal terms, but we will not be led!" That is the gist of the Soviet reply to Curzon. Much capital has been made out of a British warship, which is now in the White Sea, but it is certain that neither Britain nor Russia has any intention of going to war. The most that...
...blooded fighting spirit, but unfortunately furnished them with a fighting code which demanded just one retaliation for every slur on a man's name, home or country, namely, immediate and direct action with ax, gun, or flst. Where each man who was not a coward was considered equal to his neighbor, there was no discounting an insult because of the stupidity or lack of breeding in the man responsible for it. An earlier and more polished society which recognized the duelling code distinguished between affronts coming from a "gentleman", and those arising from a boorish and Lefthanded mentality...