Word: breach
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Chiang captured Shanghai the breach between himself and the Nationalist politicians at Hankow has grown so wide that it is even rumored that the Nationalist Central Executive Committee has dismissed Chiang as Generalissimo, through this he has denied...
...fiancee for seven years with large and shiny gifts?40 of them?one for every Christmas, every Easter, every birthday. . . . Last week she, no mummy, broke off the engagement. All the gifts had been coffins. Mr. O'Shea wanted his 40 coffins back, so he sued her for breach of promise...
...produced two runs, constituted the damage done to the Crimson hurler's delivery during that period. But with two out in the ninth William Ullman '27, University second-sacker, made a high throw to first, drawing J. E. Tobin off the cushion. Two pinch-hitters were rushed into the breach, and each responded with a clean single. Jenkins, Terrier backstop, faced crowded bags and drove in his team's third run with a hard drive to center. The threatening rally was throttled and the game ended when D. MacDonald grounded to Ullman, who nipped his man at first with...
...brief, the agitation against interference in Nicaragua seems to have succeeded only in gaining so many meaningless phrases from the White House. This is in every way unfortunate. It is unfortunate in that it seems to be a breach of good falich. It is further unfortunate in that it makes the altogether fine if not altogether timely Disarmament Proposal appear to have been in part prompted by a desire to divert public attention from Central American affairs that a rather questionable policy might not be hindered by public opprobrium...
Something must be done about it. This is the agreement of judges and priests, of femimists and supporters of the double standard. And there agreement ends. To this breach comes Keyserling, bringing with him The Correct Statement of the Marriage Problem. In his role of philosopher-guide he unfolds four principles upon which the marriage of the future must be based if success is to be assured. There are in these four principles no loopholes for the individualist; the development of self for which we raise our modern hue and cry gets short shift beside the more universal principles...