Word: thereon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patriots boiled last week over a stricture passed by Captain Charles W. R. Knight, British ornithologist. Captain Knight had been making money in the U. S. with a cinema-and-lecture on eagles. Scrutinizing a U. S. coin he had observed that the bald-headed or American eagle depicted thereon was "just taking off instead of in full flight...
...Douglas Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call...
...they are to continue - must soon be definitized by some sort of agreement as to the total sum which Germany is expected to pay. Wrote Mr. Gilbert: "As time goes on and practical experience accumulates, it becomes always clearer that neither the reparations problem nor the other problems depending thereon will be finally solved until Germany has been given a definite task to perform on her own responsibility, without foreign supervision and without the transfer problem." The modest Agent Gilbert envisioned and recommended the proximate abolition of the very bureau over which he presides...
...fomented antagonism against Mexico by statements made in European capitals. She has criticized the Mexican Constitution and the structure of laws based thereon. She has declared that some day downtrodden Mexican women will rise and assert themselves. Just now she is safely out of Mexico but Mexican indignation still runs high against Mme. Alexandria Kollontay...
...detailed context of Mr. Hanford's article there is little to be said. If a maxim is to be offered it is--"Peruse--and contemplate thereon." One learns that, "examination papers will have to be prepared and graded with especial care"; that regular tutorial reading in addition to course reading will continue during the Reading Period--a fact not plainly understood heretofore; that the Library is making plans so as to be able to meet the increasing demands on its shelves; that there will be no "mechanical check on attendance"--possibly the most practical evidence of the University's sincere...