Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, at Shanghai, the French Colony was displaying such complacence toward the new Chinese Nationalist Government that U. S. and British residents in the French quarter expressed uneasiness lest the French intended to allow Chiang Kaishek, the Chinese Nationalist Generalissimo, to assume control of the French Concession. Since U. S. and British marines were heaping up more sandbags and stringing more barbed wire every day to defend their quarter, the attitude of the French and Japanese caused extreme resentment among Anglo-Saxons at Shanghai...
...Journal? Is it possible that a magazine founded (in 1883) to give "authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public with pawky promises...
Interpretive dancing, requires vigorous training while the dancer is a child between the ages of five and 15, and latter constant work in between performances. This necesity for training dancers while they are young raises a great many complications, for a child's parents are unwilling to allow it to go without an education. In order to avoid this trouble we hope to start a school at which regular school work can be combined with training in dancing...
...course, being emphasized to a greater extent," added Professor Ferguson, "but this was not a motive in the change. First of all, the department felt that students should get to know the field of their own special concentration better, and we found the old fields too broad to allow this. Also, under the new plan, men can choose more widely without paying a serious penalty for it on the general examination. The entire change was simply a corrective of the situation brought about by the institution of the general examination in History as a whole...
...Peel and Gladstone, which set principle before party, reform before office, or toward the precedent set by the first President of the United States who intentionally gave up the reins of power at the end of his second term. But it is an insult to the electorate to allow mere vote-getting to be so brazen...