Word: counsellors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shidehara. Foreign Minister Shidehara must have been speculating anxiously, last week, upon what attitude the U. S. would take toward intervention in China. Since Baron Shidehara was Counsellor of the Japanese Embassy at Washington in 1912, and Ambassador from 1919 to 1922, he is not ignorant of U. S. psychology; and he was aware of Calvin Coolidge as Vice President...
...literature." "The place for a woman's body to be denuded is in the privacy of her own apartments with the blinds down." "Jesus was never moved from the path of duty however hard by public opinion. Why should I be?" "I believe that there is a Devil." "Counsellor Spencer tried to show that I sought a fat office in Washington. But I could triumph over them all. I said, 'No sir, I did not seek a fat office.'" "The closer art keeps to morality the higher is its grade." "Stood on barracks and looked off over...
Besides serving as counsellor and friend, the parrot may prove to be a literary inspiration, and any future poems on the subject of a 'bird in his gilded cage' may be directly traced to his influence...
...Four. From the British Legation at Peking, Counsellor O. O'Malley hastened to Hankow. In London Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain could find nothing more militant to say than that of course the Chinese could seize all foreign concessions if they were so short-sighted as to do so. This attitude made Mr. O'Malley's task most difficult, though nothing could have made it easy. He entered forthwith upon negotiations looking to re-occupancy of the British concession and resumption of trade...
...which alone progress in science and the industrial arts can spring; he recognized the sanctity and significance of individual endowment and predilection, and procured opportunity within schools and colleges for the development of the student in whatever way means most to the student himself and to society. As counsellor of other institutions and as President of Harvard, he contributed greatly to the evolution of the American college into the American university; he first among American educators rightly understood the character, scope, and function of university training in such professions as law and medicine, and to his forceful initiative and convincing...