Word: processing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain extent the Conference is restricted by the process of wing-clipping which has gone on since the summons was issued in January. The decision of the United States not to take part, though admittedly the only wise course, will perhaps lessen the immediate effectiveness of the Conference. German reparations, sanctions, and land armament cannot receive much attention because Poincare has made Lloyd George agree that there shall be no attempt to revise the Treaty of Versailles. Lloyd George, on the other hand, is prevented by the Conservatives at home from proceeding as fast as France would like toward...
Relying on these reports and the fact that the Japanese have not pressed forward in the battle, optimists say that Japan is preparing to withdraw as she agreed and only seeks to be dignified in the process. The aforementioned delegation at Washington, however, sees in Japan's policy only a clock for numerous sins both past and yet to come, and says, quite frankly that once Japan has pacified the other powers with good intentions and convinced them that the Siberians are the aggressors they will proceed with the true purpose,--further conquests in Siberia...
...process of ratification the Senate leaders have discovered a valuable bit of legislative phychology. Mark Twain once told of a Missouri steamboat with a six inch cylinder engine and an eight inch cylinder whistle, so when the captain blow the whistle everything else, had to stop. Our Senate is constructed on an amazingly similar plan. But when the leaders shut down on the whistle by setting the time for the vote, the senators at last disposed of the treaty...
...contrasted the Business School method of choosing intelligently the general field of a man's business activity, to the common process of finding someone who has a job to offer, with no regard for the fitness...
When we hear that a young Brazilian scientist has landed in New York who claims that by a process of blood irrigation he can revive the dead, change a negro into a white man, reduce one's necessary modicum of sleep from eight hours to one, and indefinitely prolong life, we do not know whether to be amused or amazed...