Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chinese alibis being what they so often are, it was freely rumored that Yen and his Shansi were at best holding aloof and at worst were likely to attack Nanking. Last week, however, the Marshal pompously approached "Southern Capital" upon his private train, accompanied by wife and retinue. At the station stood slender, waspish President Chiang Kaishek, and strapping War Minister Feng Yu-hsiang. As Yen joined Chiang and Feng, press photographers snapped "China's Big Three...
...will deny that the policy of the Red Cross was justified, up to the end of the Civil War. But now that all China except Manchuria is nominally at peace and consolidated under the Nationalist State (TIME, Oct. 29) it is news that the Red Cross is still holding aloof. Correspondents received from Judge Payne, last week, the strong impression that he is acting upon advice from the State Department. The Chinese Nationalist Government has been formally recognized by the State Department (TIME...
...much as Mr. Brown has had no experi ence in amusement enterprises. But if he now knows nothing about amusements, he also knew nothing about leather when he became the U. S. Leather Co. head in 1923. The modern executive is not in frequently superior to and aloof from a detailed knowledge of his industry's routine...
...take issue with you on the recent denunciation in your columns of degree language requirements. May these indispensible accountrements of our college curricula forever remain aloof to scurrilous attacks of "Crime" editors. Possibly you would rejoice if you could eliminate everything connected with cerebral activity from college life. Serlously, your intellectual status is gravely questioned after the inane castigation in Thursday's edition on a revered feature of the Harvard educational ideal...
...free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows no sign of turning aloof from life...