Word: apologia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearly a month has elapsed since your paper took double column umbrage at certain strictures which Perry Marks and myself coincided in making upon the Ph.D. Since I unfortunately did not see the editorial in question at that time, I should like now, however belatedly, to make an apologia (not an apology) for my article in Liberty...
...sister, the Hon. Constance Gibson, offered an apologia of great significance when it is considered how many potential criminals are not receiving proper care or experiencing adequate restraint...
Stresemann's Apologia. Speaking for the Government, Foreign Minister Stresemann reviewed at length the whole course of the recent negotiations at Geneva (TIME, March 22 et seq.) which resulted in the adjournment of the League without admitting Germany. "One thing the German delegation achieved was that, in all the discussion about where the blame for failure lay, nobody blamed Germany. I know how many telegrams advising us to leave Geneva were sent from home. I think we might have harvested very cheap laurels by coming home. But by remaining we won recognition of our blamelessness...
...oaths of a drill sergeant. Last week he ripped out several terse orders. Promptly 15 Greek officers and politicians were marched aboard a ship and departed into exile. Pangalos barked again and all citizens were ordered to deliver up whatever "military" firearms they possessed, within a month. The official apologia declared that these steps were taken "purely as precautionary measures, yet if an investigation now under way reveals anything of a grave nature, exemplary punishment will be meted out to the guilty...
...sermon of the week was issued by the Harvard Committee which is raising $10,000,000 for the departments of Business Administration, Chemistry, Art. It was an apologia by Bishop Lawrence, liberal, Bishop of Massachusetts, stating why he, a clergyman, should rightfully assist the committee. The Bishop's points...