Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noble Resolution only when it was hammered into him that his blanket cash-&-carry law, with which he proposes to replace that part of the Neutrality Act which expired last week, would serve only to help Japan at China's expense, just as the old Neutrality had done...
Urbane Parisians, who have long 'done most of their newspaper reading between the lines, suspected last week that the Rome-Berlin newspapers would be made to behave rather than be suppressed, but that before long the Rightist Premier may suppress outright the Communist dailies L'Humanite and Ce Soir...
...years 4,000,000 Roman Catholic Croats in the North have done their best to sabotage the Government run largely in the interest of the 6,500,000 Greek Orthodox and Moslem Serbs in the South. Croats and Serbs have never got along well together. Besides their religious differences, the Croats consider the Serbs uncultured barbarians. They complain that their old agreements with the Serbs for self-government, fair taxation and civil liberties were abrogated by a dictatorial Serb Government. Their list of grievances - suppression, little education, commercial exploitation - is long. They have loudly demanded autonomy; and, agitating...
...show successfully showed that U. S. artists have done well by their country. Its catalogue, also, was a triumph, as few exhibition catalogues ever are (see col. 1). Slight, scholarly A. (for Alpheus) Hyatt Mayor, Associate Curator of Prints, and efficient Josephine Lansing Allen, an assistant curator of paintings, put it together with sparkling good sense and humor. For each picture they provided background information, illuminating quotations, graceful homilies. In their observations on portraits of the late John D. Rockefeller (by John Singer Sargent) and J. P. Morgan (by Carlos Baca-Flor), they achieved a tone of perfect respect...
...Crimson has proposed that the University supervise the tutoring that is done in Harvard subjects, and make certain that such tutoring is directed toward those who have been ill, or toward the honest student who has done--or tried to do--his own work. With a penalty of probation hanging over the head of men patronizing blacklisted schools, tutoring could be restricted in this manner...