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Over a month's secret negotiations between the Princeton and Harvard athletic associations culminated last night with the announcement that the two colleges would meet again in varsity football in 1934 and 1935, for the first time sine the severance of relations...
...former disarmament conferences has been the fact that no security has been offered for countries that reduce their armaments. This plan would provide for such a compensating security. It would offer a means for the League's effectiveness, a provision to deal with such problems as the present Sine-Japanese difficulty, a weapon to castigate offenders against world peace. Further it would act as an international police force to preserve order, to take care of such disturbances as perennially occur in Nicaragua, or in various Balkan states...
...this the command of the language is an absolute sine qua non. Inexperto crede. I have attempted at various times to become familiar with Greek, but have not had much success because of my late start. The more I try to understand the major monuments of the Greek world, the more I am baffled by my inability to be sure exactly what significance is to be attached to the expressions on which arguments and descriptions turn. A smattering is better than nothing, and so is a dictionary, but there is no substitute for intimacy...
...both reluctant to enter a conference which Britain is urging chiefly with hopes of strengthening her pound and drawing more French and U. S. gold into world circulation. But Whitehall and Threadneedle Street seemed to think last week that progress can be made by urging the conference as a sine qua non without which general prosperity simply cannot be restored. Such a conference would doubtless decide that War Debts and Reparations should be cancelled (a view most "international" U. S. bankers already hold); might also decide that the Gold Standard is inadequate to back world credit needs (an alternative being...
...will be made to the physics, and chemical laboratories, and high voltage laboratory, where the new motor generator set of 200 kilovolt amperes has been installed. The motor is unique, being built specially for the Engineering School by Westinghouse, with a frequency range from 20 to 75 cycles, and sine wave under all conditions...