Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standard of excellence in the arts?" is the paraphrased title of tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...
...have thereupon accused the British Foreign Office's civil servants of an "indiscretion" would have been contrary to the principles of British parliamentarianism and of British journalism. Instead last week, the London Daily Telegraph spoke of Italian secret operatives having filched the document out of British hands "by a clever piece of indiscretion"-neatest trick of the week...
...report to the British Government on the Ethiopian situation made last June by six expert British civil servants: two from the Foreign Office and one each from the Admiralty, Air Ministry, War and Dominions Offices. These experts were chairmanned by Sir John Maffey and the official character of the document was so self-evident that the British Foreign Office was constrained to admit its genuineness, although deprecating...
Clearer than any handwriting on the wall is the ballot in the Senior class election. At the bottom of that document the glove is flung down to the unwary voter: "DO YOU APPROVE OF THE CLASS CONSTITUTION?" Following this challenge there is a small box in which one's assent is to be given. Assent, indeed, but what of the man who does not approve? Either the Student Council believes such subversiveness impossible in a Harvard student, or else feels secure enough in the saddle so as to brook no opposition...
Hilarity among League statesmen by this time was such that the grave rebuttal of Dr. Guani, who cited dry instances of revolutionary activity abroad by the organizations Joseph Stalin dominates, went unheeded. At one document cited by Dr. Guani, M. Litvinoff shouted "Forged...