Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese Government, in its answer to the Diplomats' note of protest regarding the bandit outrage near Tsinan (TIME, Oct. 15), stated that three of the officials whose punishment was demanded (TIME, Aug. 20) were dismissed, that a Presidential mandate had also dismissed the Military Governor of Shantung from his post and that further orders had been sent to provincial authorities " to redouble their efforts to suppress brigandage." The Government said, however, that it could not commit itself to a scheme for policing the railways. The demands for an indemnity for the victims of the bandit outrage were accepted...
...tombs of departed greatness, a survival of primitive hero worship. And everybody is anxious about the ultimate disposal of his own corpse. Yet Diogenes, reports Cicero, ordered his to be thrown out unburied. "To the birds and the beasts!" cried his shocked friends. "Not at all," was the answer, "but-lay a stick beside me so that I can drive them off". "How can you, since you will not feel them?" "Well, if I do not feel them, what will I care if they rend...
...certain evil conditions," said Professor Manley O. Hudson, L. '10 in his address at the Foreign Students reception last evening in the ballroom of the Phillips Brooks House. "Such a condition," he continued, "is the constant menace to every man of being called from industrial occupations to arms to answer a call to settle some political quarrel. Most of the men in this room have seen students leave laboratories and study halls to go to the front to kill other men, many of whom were students searching for the same knowledge...
Purdue University conducted an investigation to answer this historic question...
...easily apparent. One at once belongs to the very exclusive group of those who understand what they are ordering. Thus one avoids such an embarrasing faux pas as that of the man who, pointing to an item on the menu, asked for "Some of this please" and received the answer "The orchestra is playing that now, Sir". Or one might even join that more exclusive group, the waiters. For Mr. Britten reports that those now on the ship are not much better off than the passengers. The head-waiter himself had to apologize for his failure to interpret properly...