1. In March 1920 the US Senate finally killed the treaty. The United States did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles and we did not join the League of Nations. Wilson considered this a great failure and it plagued him until his death. Disgust was deepening.
Part of the Peripherals glossary: An abacus is a manual aid to calculating that consists of beads or disks that can be moved up and down on a series of sticks or strings within a usually wooden frame. The abacus itself doesn't calculate; it's simply a device for helping a human being to calculate by remembering what has been counted. The modern Chinese abacus, which is still widely used in China and other countries, dates from about 1200 A.D.
An abacus is a counting device that uses beads on a table or string that represent numbers.bacus is not like the modern electronic calculators that perform all of the functions of their own and then present the result in an electronic form on their screens. It is rather a tool that helps in counting the numbers with the help of reference in its beads.