Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...
...become clear that the Army assassinations of the week before proceeded from a grim resolve in the Army that the guidance of the Empire must not hereafter be by Japanese identified with maintaining either the present Capitalistic status quo in Japan or the present territorial status quo in Eastern Asia...
...ambitious, Caesar dodged and bribed his way out of Italy, and even after his friend's had won for him Sulla's contemptuous pardon he was wise enough not to return till after Sulla's death. While Caesar was cultivating the arts of a courtier in Asia (Author Bentley has him companioning a pervert out of policy, implies he was not really that way himself), his rival Pompey was winning victories all over the place and becoming the darling of Rome...
Featuring 45 scholars from 30 universities in Europe, Asia, and the United States, practically a complete college curriculum will be offered in the 200-odd courses and lecture series comprising the school. Current problems will be emphasized in courses conducted by American and European authorities...
...Japan, by its commercial development," says his report, "has since the middle of the last century made itself one of the foremost nations of the world, and has given a great stimulus to commercialization in all parts of Asia. The stimulus has been felt in Siam and will doubtless be increasingly powerful in time to come. Commercialization seems inevitable in Siam, and no one can doubt that it is desirable for it to proceed from Siamese initiative...