Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No secret has it been that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government has long needed a housecleaning. Inefficiency, corruption, jealousy and nepotism- old Chinese official vices-have hampered China in waging her war almost as much as lack of guns and ammunition. Japan having seized most of China...
> Leo, a Timesman who-looks like a character from The Front Page, has been a speed skater, cyclist, jockey, milkwagon driver, chemist, mathematician, perfume manufacturer and aviator.
At its centre in an open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side...
Whether character (or virtue) can be taught is an old, old subject of debate among pedagogues and theologians. Modern educators agree that virtue (which they describe as good habits and attitudes) can be taught, but they argue over how. Most of them believe that desirable attitudes such as kindness, cooperativeness...
But Composer Grieg, for all his fame, remained one of music's flower gardeners. Most of his best compositions were light songs and piano pieces, small, lyric, orchestral posies. There was no room on his plot for big symphonic and operatic hedgerows and shade trees. For this situation his...