Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...declared, are denied by their "Way of the Warrior" or military code any possibility of surrendering to the enemy and continuing to live thereafter. If captured, even after being knocked unconscious (as was famed Japanese Major Koga at Shanghai last year), a member of the Japanese Army must commit suicide (as Major Koga...
...Mudge, Presbyterian moderator. The Council's structure was tightened up, its meeting times changed from quadrennial to biennial, in accordance with committee recommendations which were practically all approved. Deferred until 1934 was a proposal to let the Federal Council administer for its constituents such activities as they may commit to it. Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, retiring president, addressed the delegates on Christian Unity, which, said he, "you can't get ... among churches simply by passing resolutions. . . . You have to think together, you have to live together in terms of Christian fellowship, and the first thing you know...
...important poets Horace and Catullus. Catullus is treated summarily as a tid-bit which may be more thoroughly digested by those who choose to take Latin 1. The Odes of Horace are read and discussed in an almost scholarly manner, and the student is given an opportunity to commit to memory all the more masterly verses of the learned poets superlative erotic and philosophical work. Professor Parry, Dr. Chase, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Westgate, are all well fitted to introduce the diffident Freshman and the difficult Sophomore to the delights of the golden age of Roman poetry. Professor Parry does...
...hands with the assurance that railroads shall not again strangle waterways transportation to death. . . . The fight against me seems to be made by men who don't know West Point teaches honor, duty, country. If I couldn't laugh at these attacks, I guess I'd commit suicide...
...principal. Because he was going out of office President Hoover called his successor to Washington to help formulate a continuing national policy. Governor Roosevelt's stipulation was that the meeting be "informal and personal." The next President was ready to discuss and confer but he was unwilling to commit himself to a major foreign program three months before taking office. President Hoover was reported to have a variety of plans ready to suggest in the hope that Governor