Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much can be done, if only it doesn't rain. There's the Pekin Government to overthrow as usual. True, no one knows exactly why the government ought to be overthrown. It hasn't passed a prohibition law, or denied that all men are born free and equal, or declared for municipal ownership of laundries. But why be pedantic about such matters? It's the principle of the thing that counts--principle and force of habit. In June every Chinaman just naturally marches on Pekin...
...desires their services as long as they will remain. Under the present system, few expressions of this sort are given. While the undergraduates demand more contact with their instructors and more "honors" courses, the departments quite properly demand scholarly work to justify promotion to a full professorship. The instructor hasn't time for both. Though he may be a better man to teach than the one who contributes countless ingenious notes to learned publications, if he devotes his efforts to the undergraduates, under the departmental system as it now exists, he cannot be advanced until some other university recognizes...
...bound to be complications. This young man, traveling the world over, left a trail of bleached and broken hearts behind him. Finally, he is washed up on a rocky island and the real struggle begins. One of the two women has a child by him and the other one hasn't. Finally he dies and the women drown their loneliness in mutual lamentations. One of the more unfortunate productions...
...Laugh It Off" may start out on its long tour confident that any graduate in the open spaces who has bought tickets will get more than his money's worth, and that any graduate who hasn't bought tickets has only himself to blame. For among the commodities thrown in with the price are these...
...read that the fight against its passage in the state Senate is being waged not by the people whom it would affect, but by the proprietors of drug and department stores. Their action is natural enough, but there is no reason for the apathy of the general public; it hasn't even enough interest in a bill which so clearly involves the whole theory of the sphere of government action to laugh the perpetrators of the absurdity to shame. It is allowed to take its place with the Kentucky anti-evolutionary teaching law the Kansas anti-cigarette bill...