Word: abjectness
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...impression that the lectures in Greek 12 one the history of Classical Greek literature are in their third generation, having passed more or less unchanged from Goodwin to Smyth to Jackson, is generally held and supinely accepted. Whether this is literally so or not, the attitude indicated shows the abject respect for established thought and the consequent stultification which now paralyzes the department. Surely Goodwin has not had the last word to say on this subject, and the class receives from its lecturer a shop-worn tradition instead of an active attempt to forge valuations and conceptions in contemporary terms...
...regime had always been carefully described by Japanese as a strictly "spontaneous, autonomous state set up by Chinese"- but after "General" Yin vanished the Japanese commander in North China, Lieut. General Kiyoshi Kazuki, made no bones about officially appointing Yin's successor, put in an even more abject Chinese stoolpigeon for Japan, one Mr. Chi Tseng...
Tientsin Shambles. General Kazuki meanwhile had blundered spectacularly at Tientsin, the teeming port through which during the past month Japan has poured an invading army (TIME, July 26). So deceptively abject were the local Chinese population, its coolies meekly unloading Japanese munitions and its Chinese officials blandly obliging, that General Kazuki did not bother to keep Tientsin heavily garrisoned, hurried almost all the Japanese troops he landed directly inland toward Peiping. Suddenly about 2 a. m. Chinese artillery secretly brought close to Tientsin started shelling the central and east railway stations used by the Japanese. Simultaneously Chinese snipers, evidently well...
Neither a traitor nor a patriot but a Chinese realist, General Sung quite realized that he was at the mercy of General Kazuki unless Chinese Generalissimo Chiang should strongly back him, and this week Sung suddenly caved in, so Kazuki said. According to Japanese sources. General Sung made abject apologies for the recent fighting in North China, agreed to punish Chinese officers whose troops had fought, and confirmed that he always tries to stamp out "anti-Japanism." But all this from Sung was "verbal" and Chinese sources kept absolutely mum about what he had or had not promised Kazuki...
...squarely at II Duce's week-old pronouncement of self-sufficiency for Italy, timed shrewdly for London's current Imperial Conference whose outcome may decide a U. S.-Great Britain reciprocal trade agreement. Secretary Hull damned self-sufficiency "unless a nation is content to 'sink into abject degradation, economic and spiritual impoverishment"; called for "a demobilization of ... stifling . . . mutual mistrust, of political hostility, of exhausting and suicidal race for military power, of continuing economic warfare...