Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further scanning of the settlement reveals that the Nanking Government explicitly "undertakes to make compensation in full for all personal injuries and material damages done to the American Consulate and to its officials and to American residents and their property at Nanking...
...very much like a game of leapfrog; each jump was ?1,000. Mr. Dring would jump first, Mr. Maggs would outbid him, then Dr. Rosenbach would go over both of them. Dr. Rosenbach never outbid the proxy of the British Museum until his English competitor had done so. After ?10,000, the price went up more slowly. "Ten thousand and a hundred," said Mr. Dring. "And a hundred," said Mr. Maggs. Dr. Rosenbach took off his glasses; "And a hundred," he whispered. For one round, each raised the other ?10, as if they were all nearing the limit. The gallery...
...Dodgson. He was an instructor in mathematics at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford. Alice Liddell's father, a member of the team of Liddell and Scott, famed in all schools and colleges for their Greek Lexicon, was Dean of Christ Church. Mr. Dodgson too had done some writing. Some of it, mathematical treatises and such, he had published under his own name. Other and lighter works, such as he often composed, he signed, with a Latin transliteration of his first two names, Lewis Carroll. Alice Liddell and her two sisters were allowed to run across...
...part the question of additional space, in part the choice of various fields in which special attention should be devoted to building up our collections; but the fundamental point at issue is to make the Library an organization which will continue in the future as it has done in the past to meet in an adequate manner the multifarious needs and demands of its numerous users, whether of the Faculty, of the students, or of people from outside...
...school. Two reasons are advanced by the Law Faculty for the important change in educational policy, first, the increase in number of law students, and second, the ineffectiveness of the present admission requirements which have not proved wholly effective in excluding men not suited to the type of work done in the better schools...