Word: shamming
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...show will be brought to a conclusion by a monster sham battle between the two batteries, in which the tanks will also be employed. Detachments of cavaltry, motorized units, motor scouts and machine guns, and both light and heavy guns will be used in the action...
Politics will continue to be a sham battle in the United States, if in no other European country, because our powerful men are concerned that the boast of thought and change to be irresistible be proved as vain as their economic control renders the service of the state and the worship of God. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT ocC. October...
...Prime Minister's scheme hardly goes far enough. Sinn Fein agitators claim-and with a fair degree of reason-that this last bill is only a sham. It is certain enough that under its provisions neither the two divided legislatures, nor the single united one, are entrusted with anything like a sufficient degree of responsibility. Of the total amount of the Irish revenues, Ireland has control of less than one tenth. The police, always such a fertile source of grievance, remains in English hands. These are but two instances of how what might appear at first to be a real...
...second obstacle; it is really a selfish one. Great fortunes, though they bring with them power, are not so easily possible today when the government takes such a large percentage of a man's income. And the power itself is often a sham. The only real fulfillment of life for the college graduate rests in service and in creative development. Politics offers the real field for those who are not artistically or scientifically inspired. The need is great; so, also, is the fulfillment...