Crossword-Solution: DETACHABILITY 13 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 24

One cannot get away from the impression that the law of political detachability will operate again to make some new distribution of the parti-colored political holdings in the Lesser Antilles.

The shifting fate of political detachability becomes moderated in islands of the open ocean, because of their remoteness from the colonizing or conquering movements emanating from the continents.

The advantages of this artifice are obvious: the detachability of the slips enables us to group them at will in a host of different combinations; if necessary, to change their places: it is easy to bring texts of the same kind together, and to incorporate additions, as they are acquired, in the interior of the groups to which they belong.

Again, in virtue of their very detachability, the slips, or loose leaves, are liable to go astray; and when a slip is lost how is it to be replaced? To begin with, its disappearance is not perceived, and, if it were, the only remedy would be to go right through all the work already done from beginning to end.

There has therefore been a liability in the sprocket to spring under strain or even to take a “set” out of line, and the change is to be approved on the whole, especially as a very easy detachability in the front sprocket is rather a “talking point” than otherwise, since it is rare that any rider avails himself of it in order to make a change of gear ratio.