Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese Armies were notorious for the fact that they could run faster and retreat in worse disorder than any known national group of armed men. This was understandable because of the world in which they lived, and the causes for which they were asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows. The men are willing to die. They mix and tangle with the Japanese with a burning hate that is good...
When the third annual Guardian Conference meets in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room this morning to hear President Conant open the discussion on propaganda, it will be the beginning of what promises to be the best of the series of meetings with a star-studded collection of authors, professors, and journalists participating...
After a preliminary meeting of all delegates at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Common Room, the third annual Guardian Conference will open with a plenary session tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock in the Winthrop Senior Common Room...
Tommorow evening at 8 o'clock and Saturday morning at 9:30 a number of study groups will take place, and Saturday afternoon at 2:30 a final plenary session will be held in the Winthrop Senior Common Room...
...within its ranks, organized political factions, each committed to a unified program and philosophy. Two such groups might be Fabian socialists or "gradualists," and "New Deal liberals." Such a plan would clarify the relations of the various groups in the Student Union, and enable them to work out a common denominator of belief and action on which all would be agreed. The present sub rosa factional fights would largely disappear, and policy would be fought out openly on "party" lines. The suspicion that the H.S.U. is illicitly dominated by a minority group would evaporate, and Harvard's liberals could...