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...take the references in the statement to excessive tariffs, import quotas, exchange, etc. That 'etc.' is a very useful word. It is used when a person has exhausted his knowledge and information, and it is intended to convey the impression that those who use it know a great deal more-if only they chose to tell...
...Liberian Government cannot disregard this snub which it regards as an insult. It cannot find it possible to continue to afford Minister Mitchell the courtesy, official or unofficial, which he hitherto has enjoyed. Will the French Government convey this message to Washington...
...establishment and one of his old friends (Wynne Gibson) tries to re-open their relations with a revolver. What all this leads to any cinemaddict ought to know, but Raft and Cummings look their parts and the picture was well directed by Archie Mayo. It manages to convey a sense of a locale, to dramatize successfully the popular conception of speakeasies as venal institutions which are sleek, disorderly and exciting...
...mission and my purpose," said Mr. Hsieh, "is to convey the great thanks of my master. Regent Pu Yi, to the august Emperor of Japan for so swiftly conferring diplomatic recognition upon Manchukuo...
...their present form. Missionaries should no longer preach routine hellfire to brown and yellow men. "Western Christianity ... is less a religion of fear and more a religion of beneficence." With the rise of a "basic world-culture," arises the question, "Why the missionary need leave his home to convey his message?" . . . Resurging nationalism is a danger to missionizing in the East. Christianity should not be identified with Western life but presented in its "universal capacity." Nor should Christianity attack the non-Christian systems of religion; it should understand them, associate itself with their "kindred elements." Christianity's chief argument...