Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Afghanistan today, and a national university. Credit for its gradual civilization must go to three kings: 1) the chuckleheaded Amanullah, who built racetracks, Roman arches, cinemas, and tried to force his outraged subjects into trousers until they rose up and chased him from the country (TIME, June 23, 1929 et ante) ; 2) Nadir Shah whose more tactful program was cut short by assassination last year; 3) Mohammed Zahir Khan, Nadir Shah's son, who is concentrating on the practical business of building up an efficient modern army...
...Presbytery of New Brunswick, N. J. started ouster proceedings against peppery Dr. John Gresham Machen, bellwether and chief name-caller of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Having declined to resign from the Board in accordance with the resolution his church passed against it (TIME, June 4, et seq.), Dr. Machen will presumably be brought to trial by the Presbytery, which last week appointed a committee to study the case. In the same situation was Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr. of the Chicago Presbytery. He was asked to resign or undergo a trial which "would involve many tedious...
...course some of the perennial insiders want to hook up the Roosevelt administration with the demise of the Crimson nine. Wild rumors now in the air say that President Roosevelt became suddenly solicitous of his international relations and sent a hurry-up radiogram to Coach Chauncey et cle. telling him to take it a bit easy. After winning five straight games in Hawaii, one can see that things looked pretty gloomy for peaceful relations with Japan...
...Dionne quintuplets last week moved into their winter quarters, a snug little private hospital which Ontario businessmen built for them 100 yd. from the bustling farmhouse where they were born four months ago (TIME, June 11 et seq.). Though it was raining pitchforks Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe would brook no delay. Fortnight ago all five had attacks of intestinal toxemia. Last week all had slight colds, caught apparently from their five older brothers and sisters. There was whooping cough, too, in the neighborhood. And their sturdy mother, who has had nothing to do with their nursing or care, seemed again...
...Tomorrow's Trend" has instituted a new column dealing solely with facts and fancies of the Harvard man and his University. And always eager to please both sides, the master minds of Washington Street have chosen the motto of our great rival in New Haven as its title "Lux et Veritas...