Word: hardships
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...peril if not power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity (see p. 37} and for throwing over democratic ways, reverting to something much stronger, more Japanese-i.e., the military Shogunate or something very much like...
Special provisions for cases of exceptional hardship merely added to the confusion. Most of the litigation centred around the complex problem of evaluating "invested capital." Carter Glass, McAdoo's successor, summarized the tax when he recommended its repeal in 1919: "It encourages wasteful expenditure, puts a premium on overcapitalization and a penalty on brains, energy and enterprise, discourages new ventures and confirms old ventures in their monopolies...
...organization headed by Joseph Otmar Hefter of New York was recruiting men for an "American-Jewish Border Regiment," called for "young tough Jews . . . willing to face hardship, danger and death in the defense of America and of American Democracy...
...There is a limit to the people's patience and endurance of hardship. . . . Present conditions are like a long-distance race without any fixed goal. Even champions become exhausted in such a race...
...Eliot Morison, last year, of the magnificent second voyage of Christopher Columbus. Of that passage from the shores of the old world to the shores of the new, there is not much known; it had little of the romance of the first, and not much of its terror and hardship. It came at a time when the Admiral was at the height of his fortunes: his fleet was big and well-equipped (although his flagship La Capitana, nicknamed La Galante by the sailors, was so slow that it held up the others) and the weather was fine, the northwest trades...