Word: portly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...against Japanese rule in Corea, there is significance in the realization that this case, like so many others before it, demands action that coincides exactly with Japan's imperialistic designs. Japan has already seized Vladivostok, from which it is unlikely that she will be driven by Russia; she has Port Arthur, Darien, the South Manchurian coast, and Shantung and the adjoining part of the Northern Chinese coast. The province of Chientao is the only remaining gap in the control of all the Northern Asia coast. And it is just at Chientao that the bandits broke out in lawlessness which demands...
...have been made on their western boundaries. Italy is to receive Zara and certain strategic islands in the Adriatic; while Fiume, although established by the agreement a free state, not even subject to the League, is virtually an Italian protectorate, since Italian influence is dominant in municipal affairs. The port itself will be used freely by both parties, however, so that the Jugo-Slavs come out of the affair rather well. Above all, the settlement bids fair to be a permanent one, thus removing another of those irritations that more than once in the past have brought Europe...
...have come to regard it as martial currency in their diplomatic barter and trade, and may not easily break them selves of so fixed a habit. Nor is the word of Soviet Russia to be trusted implicitly. Under such conditions, and with Germany casting sheep's eyes at the port of Danzig, Poland enters upon her first peaceful and truly organized period of existence as a republic...
Last Saturday night the Senior members of Phi Beta Kappa elected the following Seniors to membership: William Proctor Bell of Cincinnati, Ohio, Bernard Augustine DeVoto of Ogden, Utah, Ansel McBride Kinney of Southwest Port Mouton, Nova Scotia, Paul Kinney McElroy of Cincinuati, Ohio, and Charles Gibson Youngblut of Dayton, Kentucky...
...citizens and as the champion of civilization is bound to "send a police force consisting of the military and naval forces of our government into the republic of Mexico to open and maintain open every line of communication between the city of Mexico and every seaport and border port of Mexico...