Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor of the McGill daily is alarmed. He fears lest the great mass of college undergraduates develop into so many intellectual snobs. Collegians, he thinks, become so wrapped up in their educations that they despise all men who have not had the advantages they possess; they so cram themselves with learning that an effort is required for them to make their speech "comprehensible to the uneducated...
Having slept in Abraham Lincoln's bed at the White House, Scot MacDonald moved to the British Embassy for his last days in Washington, rode out early in the afternoon to doff his hat at the tomb of Woodrow Wilson. Lest anyone suppose Mr. Hoover had told him to do this to ensure Democratic Senatorial votes for a future treaty, Embassy officials announced that he went of his own volition...
...ready for immediate action. In Vienna he suppressed an edition of the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne, arrested its editor "for inciting troops to mutiny against the new government." In the country he sent bus loads of soldiers careening over dusty roads to remove guns and munitions from rural arsenals lest they be seized by rioters. Only then did he sit down, wipe his pink brow, and rest. He needed the rest. Worried friends last week reminded each other that for many years Policeman Schober's heart has been none too strong...
Paris. Throughout the week the French Government appeared to grow steadily more apprehensive lest the U. S. and Britain were drawing too closely into disarmament cahoots. Fear that Italy and France may be brusquely dictated to by Britain and the U. S. at the Five Power Naval Conference was increasingly manifest in the Paris press. Said the Journal des Debats...
...Lest the thoughtless imagine he were leaving the church for business, devout Dr. Wunder explained why he called his new occupation a "ministry". Said he: "The members of the firm are Christian men of high ideals and deep religious convictions. They believe, as I do, that they are feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick as literally as Christ commanded His followers to do. They consider themselves to be engaged in religious work...