Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under our present educational policy, none of the two million standees could be sent home. The land of the free offers learning to all. So the great seat shortage is only one aspect of a bad situation. There arise attendant evils of double sessions, night work, overcrowding, poor lights and air, underpaid instruction, inadequate equipment. Large classes slow up the work. The dullard drags upon the child of fair promise...
...dancing, and it was one of his few relaxations. Always grave and dignified in manner and even shy, he chose his partners from among the best dancers (of whom my mother?Lady Rose?was one) and evidently it was the exercise that appealed to him rather than the social aspect...
...victory over the Moors is said to have averted a crisis in political affairs in Spain. The war has never been popular with the proletariat, but the honor of the Army was at stake. There was also an international, aspect of the war. Spain undertook definite obligations when the Algeciras Conference (1906) placed the zone under her rule, and she has never fulfilled them. Besides, Spain is confronted with an orderly rule in French Morocco and complaints from the Italians in Tripolitania, who declare that Spain's inability to quell the Riffians reacts with bad effect...
...Governments of France, Italy, Belgium, Tokyo sent their replies individually to the British Government. Strict secrecy was maintained concerning the nature of these notes. Most of the news printed by the press on the diplomatic aspect of the Ruhr was based on vague official statements coupled with unreliable "inside information...
...unnatural that Mussolini should look to shirts as a political weapon. He founded the Black Shirts, or the Fascisti Party, on the political theory that Bolshevik tactics must be used to combat Bolshevism. It is said that he chose black on purely utilitarian grounds, including the financial aspect of decreased laundry bills. Having become a Napoleon overnight, he armed his black shirted minions with castor oil and the party song, Giovinezza?both equally deadly...