Word: girding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conquest of all China by Marshal (now President) Chiang Kai-shek was completed almost a year ago (TIME, June 25), but last week a big and a little piece of bad news made it seem that Mr. Chiang must lay down his presidential fountain pen, gird on his old sword and Mauser pistol, and sally forth from Nanking to conquer all over again two great provinces. Shantung and Hunan...
Though Their Majesties did not gird themselves with towels, last week, they were deemed to have imitated acceptably an act of greatest sanctity. The day annually observed in this manner by Spanish sovereigns is Maundy Thursday, so-called from the Latin mandatum (commandment) referring to the "new commandment" given by the Savior...
...sharply criticised as that of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin? During the past twelvemonth it has broken with Russia, declined to agree with the U. S. on naval limitation, neglected to deal with the desperate British coal situation, and once more rebuffed the expressed desire of Continental nations to gird the League with strength to enforce international settlements. Even should each of these doubtful acts be adjudged sound, their sum total remains negative and barren. Talk rumbles in England that a change at the helm of State is overdue. As the New Year looms, it is pertinent to re-examine Stanley...
...Harvard is to assume the position of American university, that is, if she is to attempt to reach with he influence not alone the youth of New England but the youth of the nation, as represented by the new enrolment figures, she must gird herself to meet the requirements of that youth. Not the insular function of a provincial university those duty is to the youth of that area, but the wider function of a center of learning open to all those in the land who are best fitted to work under her guidance--that is the difficult role which...
This week-end many a California Catholic business man will cross the threshold of El Retire San Inigo, putting a spiritual wall between himself and the cantankerous world. San Inigo, founded by Jesuits, is the latest unit in a fast developing chain of "retreats," which soon may gird Catholic America from coast to coast...