The Quarterly Review, Volume 249William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1927 |
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Pagina 11
... sense , the issue may be said to have been pre- determined by two untoward conditions . In the first place , the structural defects of Lord Fisher's battle cruisers helped to rob Sir D. Beatty of a decisive victory over Admiral Hipper's ...
... sense , the issue may be said to have been pre- determined by two untoward conditions . In the first place , the structural defects of Lord Fisher's battle cruisers helped to rob Sir D. Beatty of a decisive victory over Admiral Hipper's ...
Pagina 37
... sense , coming into his own ; and , perhaps , one of these days some one will produce a picture sufficiently true , and therefore sufficiently thrill- ing , to render any ' strong love interest ' superfluous . " " Nearly thirty years ...
... sense , coming into his own ; and , perhaps , one of these days some one will produce a picture sufficiently true , and therefore sufficiently thrill- ing , to render any ' strong love interest ' superfluous . " " Nearly thirty years ...
Pagina 38
... sense of the word , ought assuredly to have a place , since it will save the new student , zoological or otherwise , much bewilderment over the different kinds of whales and their diverse ways . For there are whales and whales , even ...
... sense of the word , ought assuredly to have a place , since it will save the new student , zoological or otherwise , much bewilderment over the different kinds of whales and their diverse ways . For there are whales and whales , even ...
Pagina 45
... sense , the whole business was . Indeed , those days were witnessing the beginning of the end of Arctic whaling as a national in- dustry , both of America and of our own country . Apart from the decreasing numbers of the whales , the ...
... sense , the whole business was . Indeed , those days were witnessing the beginning of the end of Arctic whaling as a national in- dustry , both of America and of our own country . Apart from the decreasing numbers of the whales , the ...
Pagina 50
... prove a second lean season for many ships in those waters , and Chapter XXI has the sorry heading , ' Another Winter in the Arctic . ' Again they made the best of it , but the reader senses 50 THE GREAT ONES OF THE SEA.
... prove a second lean season for many ships in those waters , and Chapter XXI has the sorry heading , ' Another Winter in the Arctic . ' Again they made the best of it , but the reader senses 50 THE GREAT ONES OF THE SEA.
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Pagina 81 - The Members of the League recognize that the maintenance of peace requires the reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of international obligations.
Pagina 322 - In framing any recommendation or draft convention of general application the Conference shall have due regard to those countries in which climatic conditions, the imperfect development of industrial organisation or other special circumstances make the industrial conditions substantially different and shall suggest the modifications, if any, which it considers may be required to meet the case of such countries.
Pagina 329 - The Government Departments of any of the Members which deal with questions of industry and employment may communicate directly with the Director through the Representative of their Government on the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, or failing any such Representative, through such other qualified official as the Government may nominate for the purpose.
Pagina 82 - The Members of the League undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all Members of the League. In case of any...
Pagina 312 - League: (a) will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women, and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and industrial relations extend...
Pagina 160 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Pagina 82 - The Members of the League agree that the manufacture by private enterprise of munitions and implements of war is open to grave objections. The Council shall advise how the evil effects attendant upon such manufacture can be prevented, due...
Pagina 174 - At last all the horses are knocked up, and now there are half-adozen donkeys. What a change! Behold the hero in the amphitheatre, the spangled jacket thrown on one side, the cork slippers on the other. Puffing, panting, and perspiring, he pokes one sullen brute, thwacks another, cuffs a third, and curses a fourth, while one brays to the audience, and another rolls in the sawdust.
Pagina 329 - Office shall include the collection and distribution of information on all subjects relating to the international adjustment of conditions of industrial life and labor and particularly the examination of subjects which it is proposed to bring before the Conference with a view to the conclusion of international conventions, and the conduct of such special investigations as may be ordered by the Conference.
Pagina 312 - The High Contracting Parties, recognising that the wellbeing, physical, moral and intellectual, of industrial wageearners is of supreme international importance, have framed, in order to further this great end, the permanent machinery provided for in Section I and associated with that of the League of Nations. They...