Word: assuredness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...
Years of dependence upon the eleemosynary institutions of Harvard Square have strongly enforced upon the Vagabond the inadvisability of putting much faith in the economist's interpretations of the dollar. But it is at least consoltion to him to be assured that others have struggled feebly to enjoy life and...
Mr. Wilbur gave the appearance of a very embarrassed Secretary. But he did not retreat. Representative McClintic, vociferous Oklahoman, respectfully informed him that "a Cabinet member ought to have sufficient judgment to know better." Mr. Wilbur blinked and stayed. Republican Leader Tilson got up to meet the storming Democrats with...
No less than 17 separate rituals were required to transform the Maiden into a Maharani (courtesy title). The first ceremonies admitted her to Sir Tukoji's caste, and made her the adopted daughter of his potent kinswoman, the Princess Tara-bai. With her social status thus assured, she became...
"His ideas are precisely, epigrammatically ordered. There was not a major problem in the whole Nicaraguan question that he dodged or that I even needed to raise. In military matters I found him most assured; a bit flamboyant and boastful and with a tendency to exaggerate his successes. However, he...