Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With his sisters' marriage to Sun Yatsen, Nationalist leader, he immediately cast in his lot with the southerners., Rising immediately to the head of the Finance Department he completely revolutionized the old method of tax collecting. The old system with all its red tape and abuses was completely scraped and a new organization started in which each collector was responsible directly to the Finance Minister for the taxes he raised. An immediate increase in revenue was necessary in order to pay for the battles, sieges and salaries which were necessary for the new southern forces which were combating armless backed...
Christ is shown 1) curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers...
...encouraging tendency in American thought of the present day. The general title of the Godkin Lecture, "Free Government and the Duties of Free Citizenship" is a question of interest and importance to all citizens, and one upon which public opinion is ever inquiringly active. Any light which may be cast upon the point is welcome. In President Hibben's address we find the head of one great university placing his opinions on this vital matter before the members of another university. The institutions of higher learning should exercise a strong influence over the public mind in matters of public concern...
...make an operetta, with a full chorus of eight dancing girls and a male chorus of the same number. Song hits from most of the leading musical comedies on the stage today have been skillfully woven into this remodelling and hardly recognizable comedy of Shakespeare's, and the cast has been slightly altered in order to fit this new form of production...
...revised cast is as follows...