Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking quietly in the Commons last week for a group of Scottish proletarian M.P. s, Mr. Maxton said: "A very large proportion of the world manages to conduct its affairs reasonably well without maintaining an hereditary monarchy. My group does not propose to cast any votes which tend to perpetuate a monarchist institution...
...Just an effort on the part of Shanghai to advance on the trail of progress blazed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek," Mayor Wu told friends who overwhelmed him with congratulations. "The first Wednesday in every month from now on I will conduct such marriages. The thing has taken hold at once. Already 31 couples have applied for next month. It is all part of Generalissimo Chiang's great 'New Life' movement to regenerate China...
...mean Philosophy," corrected Alice. "You musn't confuse a subject which deals with organs with philosophy which has to do with the meaning of life and modes of conduct and things like that...
...specified group of 26 schools has not been selected by Harvard for a special privilege; it is a group which has united to carry out certain progressive plans and has petitioned practically all the colleges and universities of the United States to be allowed to conduct this special program," he explained...
...years since the signing of the Locarno Pacts such a change can have come over Europe. But the fact of chief significance for those graduating this year, and in the two or three years succeeding, is that from now on the war-clouds will dominate the conduct of international relations, whether commercial or diplomatic. That economic life will suffer goes without saying. The tension under which Europe is now laboring cannot last. It may lessen for as much as a year or two. But economic and social progress is impossible in a world torn with fear, distrust, and staggering under...