Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...sincerity and seriousness are not ready to adopt this attitude at the first example. Relations between countries in new surroundings may be strained for a time without damage to the future. Only an implacable conservative could believe that the newness will not wear off. Senator Borah will find few who see in Argentine's action the utter ruin of the League of Nations...
...Baker has been limited by the fact that the manuscripts have not been released yet from the Oliver Morosco Prize Competition. "Time Will Tell" has, however, been awaiting production for some time and Professor Baker is pleased to be able to take this opportunity for its presentation, hoping to find plays now submitted in the Morosco Competition, which, it is expected, will be settled by the 15th of this month, suitable for later productions...
After the meeting Wachter expressed himself as being surprised to find so many men that actually know nothing about the playing rules. In a few days members of the first and second groups in the basketball squad will be furnished with a printed set of rules to study. "No player should be allowed to enter a game, whether it is basketball or any other game, until he is drilled and drilled in the rules. Many coaches, not the players themselves, are directly responsible for the lack of the knowledge of rules of the game...
Nominally, it is an annual report that President Butler of Columbia University has submitted to his trustees. Actually he has presented a world conspectus which is, at the very least, sober and comes very near to being pessimistic. Reversing President Butler's order of presentation, we find that we live today under a new-paganism in which individual appetite or impulse has replaced the belief in law, whether in Heaven or on earth. For this state of affairs the universities, according to President Butler, must bear their share of guilt. And from the universities the lusting after false gods...
Recognizing in General Leonard Wood all the qualities that go to make up military and executive ability, the special committee, appointed by the League of Nations to find some means of saving Armenia has picked him as the man most able to deal effectively with the matter. Under the present plan General Wood would be made High Commissioner of Armenia. He would be instructed by the League as to the general policy to be followed, and would be expected to strengthen Armenia so that she could defend herself, yet restrain her from becoming too aggressive in her turn...