Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Innovations at the Union have grown to be so frequent that most of them no longer excite comment. But to-day a test is put on "Harvard indifference" that will be hard to face, without flinching. Even the most callous must blanch at the thought--the Union is installing a...
No longer will the weary student be forced to wait painfully upon himself, no longer will the spacious halls be desecrated by Waldorlian self-service--he has but to touch an ivory button--or is it mother-of-pearl?--and a page will bear to him the article desired, be...
Two decisions of first importance to the United States have been made by the Assembly of the League of Nations. One is the defining of Article X; the other is Denmark's answer, which is regarded as satisfactory, to the request for troops for the League army; that her action...
Article X is constructed to mean in the official statement of the Assembly that the League "does not guarantee the territorial integrity of any member of the League. All it does is to condemn external aggression on the territorial integrity and political independence of any member of the League and...
The importance of Denmark's reply is that our position, were we a member nation, would be analogous to hers. If we were asked to supply forces for a foreign undertaking "Congress," says the "New York Times," "like the Danish Parliament, would have full power to refuse to send troops...