Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edgar Snow left Soviet China two months before Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped, three months before the Communists and the Generalissimo began their elaborate hatchet-burying in preparing to fight Japan. He prophesies flatly that the Communist-Kuomintang alliance "concludes an epoch of revolutionary warfare and begins a new era." Newspaper readers following the Japanese advance might conclude that the new era is to be one of Japanese dominance. Not so, says Edgar Snow. He quotes Mao's prophecy that even though Japan should occupy half of China and blockade the coast, "we would still be far from defeated...
...passion for social justice has provided him with the welcome duty of seeking to apply the Papal Encyclicals to the grave social, economic, and political problems which men are called upon to solve during this epoch of history...
...historical background of the two countries and cited their present aims. "China in national institutions," he explained, "was forced on Japan after 1854 by her indefensible geographic situation. Japan in 1872 sent to the United States and Europe the important Iwakura Embassy which presented the following year an epoch-making report on Japanese policy in the modern world. It recommended that (1) Japan modernize her institutions; (2) that she arm herself in the western fashion; and (3) that she await the pre-occupation of the Western powers to use her now armament...
...announcement yesterday of the modifications in Tutorial instruc-the Economics Department is about to begin this into force, the lead which History gave in starting the "modified Tutorial" system had been followed, and indeed surpased. The developments which the Economics Departmen is about to begin this year are not epoch making, but they represent another step forward in the slow transition of the Tutorial System as it first existed at Harvard...
Finishing touch to "curing me of my epoch" was added when Tony gave Mabel Dodge a dose of the Mexican drug peyote as a cure for dysentery. Awake all night, a clairvoyant vision showed her that "all this learning in the brain, and never in the blood was ended." In this mood even Maurice provoked "a tender, soft, sorry feeling"-though she did not relax her determination to kick him out. To make his going easier (for herself), she and Tony absented themselves at a Corn Dance. On their return Tony said, "I comin' here to this tepee tonight...