Word: global
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opens, most auspiciously, the political New Year 1928. Not since the World War has a twelvemonth commenced with all nations so substantially at peace, with all major governments so markedly stable. While this unusual global calm prevails, it becomes possible and prudent to scan certain key nations and their great men, asking and answering a crisp, significant question: "Who rules the World...
...reason for this harping upon combined totals is that the U. S. has a relatively superfluous number of destroyers, while Britain has, in U. S. eyes, a like superfluity of cruisers. By lumping the two, and by limiting combined or global tonnage the U. S. would be relieved of the necessity of building up to Britain's cruiser strength, would save money, yet keep global parity...
Thus the concrete proposals in the British plan dealt only with limitation of the strength of individual ships, and not with limitation of the number of ships or global tonnage. Since something had to be said about this, the British proposal contained a cautious but very interesting observation...
...HAVEN, CONN., Feb. 23. The Yale swimmers defeated Rutgers today 45 to 26, breaking two intercollegiate records Bench of Yale broke the record in the 200 yard breast, stroke by two and two fifths seconds, while Global of Rutgers lowered his own mark in the 440 yard swim by four and one-fifth seconds and equalled the 150 yard back stroke record of one minute fifty-five and two-fifths seconds...