Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year really started lest Spring when we conducted a book drive for the Law Loan Library. About 25 case books were contributed by the students, and a number of others by professors. We have given out every book in the Library which is not obsolete; we have 207 now in use by 85 men. This is a slight decrease from last year. An intensive drive for text-books is planned this spring which will again make the library equal to the demands...
...Lest the miracle be doubted, the Berlin Acht Uhr Abenblatt published photographs showing Edward of Wales at every state of his triumphant "surprise visit" to Berlin. The paper sold fast on the boulevards, and few readers turned to the last sentence of the story on an inside page which read: "April Fool...
Meanwhile, at Shanghai, the French Colony was displaying such complacence toward the new Chinese Nationalist Government that U. S. and British residents in the French quarter expressed uneasiness lest the French intended to allow Chiang Kaishek, the Chinese Nationalist Generalissimo, to assume control of the French Concession. Since U. S. and British marines were heaping up more sandbags and stringing more barbed wire every day to defend their quarter, the attitude of the French and Japanese caused extreme resentment among Anglo-Saxons at Shanghai...
Meanwhile the British cruiser Comics had steamed up the Rio Tejo (Tagus), and was keeping London and the world informed about events at Lisbon with her wireless. It appeared that for two days the Carmona Government had deliberately halted all the railways, posts and electric communications, lest uncensored news leak out of Portugal. When the situation cleared up it was found that the U, S. Consul at Oporto had been extremely lucky. Five minutes after he left his room in the Grande Hotel do Porto†† a bomb was light-heartedly tossed in at the window by a passing...
...Powers. At Washington, U. S. President Coolidge and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur prepared stealthily to deal with the Chinese. Lest it be thought that the U. S. was rushing too many armed forces to China (TIME, Jan. 31) these statesmen designed a stratagem. They caused the transport Chaumont to sail from San Diego, Calif., loaded to the scuppers with U. S. marines last week, but announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging...