Word: transferable
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...question as to the best means of providing this outlet for the transfer of ideas, however, is puzzling and perhaps beyond solution. It has been quite obvious that the Liberal Club of the past few years has fallen far short of a perfect forum. Its members formed just as bigoted a clique of undergraduates as the hidebound conservatives or the extreme radicals, with whose tenets the Liberal Club so often disagreed. Even more of a failure has been the Harvard Socialist Club, or whatever name it seeks to masquerade under this week...
...same time it might be convenient to allow a percentage of tonnage assigned to different categories to be transferred to other categories. The British Government, however, does not favor a general transfer. It is opposed to transfer in regards to capital ships, aircraft carriers and submarines. In regards to cruisers, it would permit the transfer out of the 8-inch class into the 6-inch class on a percentage which remains to be arranged. The object of this arrangement would be to take into account the special needs of countries which require a large proportion of small cruisers...
...angles are realized, no silly dreamer would he be who catches a picture of the ultimate utility company-a vast single enterprise drawing its funds from all the money centres, its engineers and executives from the best of every country; able to utilize natural power wherever it is abundant, transfer it to the great factory cities of all nations...
...race. Next in value to expatriate students as translators of the emotional and intellectual constitution of the people of their adopted place of study are delegates such as those who come to Harvard today. The terms of life are experiences and the vehicles of expression are words. Properly to transfer the one through the other the translator must first live the life; then tell the tale. The two functions should be of the same individual if happy results are to be obtained. And so, as fosterers of a true impression of America by her system of education, the strangers...
...ships, both of exactly 8,000 tons, but one having six-inch guns and the other eight-inch, would fall into different classes); 3) Within the limit of the total tonnage assigned by the conference to a given nation, that nation might upon giving appropriate notice, transfer part of its ships from one class to another ?might for example mount eight-inch guns on a ship that had previously carried six-inchers...