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Dates: during 1930-1939
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U. S. readers may be annoyed to discover that Crusader Herbert ignores U. S. English, tacitly assumes that it is a provincial monstrosity. Of U. S. slang he says "it is one part 'natural growth' and nine parts a nervous disorder. It is St. Vitus's Talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word War | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

. . . No English-speaking correspondent is covering the civil war there: my father occasionally sends dispatches of general interest to the North China Daily News, but reports no "victories" for the Central Government. The Communists have, of course, no press; most of them are probably too illiterate to discover that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Within these "qualitative" limits each of the Great Powers can build "quantitatively'' up to any battle power it pleases. In the Treaty are "escape clauses," so that if the signatories should discover, for example, that Albania was building a 100,000-ton Capital Ship with 40-in. guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVAL CONFERENCE: Scrap of Treaty | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Besides turning their attention to Sociology A the college and departmental authorities must consider the division as a whole. The Sociology Department must review its own rapid, uncertain, and undernourished growth and attend to the task of tying up loose ends. Beyond cavail, the college must recognize the growing importance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CENTER ON THE PERIPHERY | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

Anon, I to Mr. Hersey's class and there did hear one pretty Dorothy Speare, author of the film, "One Night of Love", discover "Aristotle in Hollywood". I was much surprised to learn that Mae West neither smokes nor drinks and goes to bed at nine. How these flickers fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1936 | See Source »

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