Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lie to Dr. Wilson...
...lie de France two French suffragets tried to convert Daughter Jose, argued that if French women are given the vote they can be depended on to always vote for peace. "French women are impulsive," retorted anti-Feminist Jose, "they could vote for war as well as peace. Many would vote contrary to their husbands in a spirit of contradiction. I would prefer a dozen babies to a seat in the Chamber of Deputies...
...Japan, Manchuria will be considered as divided into two zones, Northern Manchuria and Southern Manchuria. Neither Russia nor Japan will send troops into Northern Manchuria, adjacent to the Soviet frontier, "unless unexpected events occur." So long as Japan confines her military action to Southern Manchuria, where her chief interests lie, the public declaration of Comrade Karakhan will stand: Russia will keep hands...
...friends of Penrod who take their way to the University Theatre this week are not likely to applaud the talking film as heartily as they would if they had never met the boy before. The engaging qualities of Booth Tarkington's book do not lie so much in the plot, as in the subjective treatment of a small boy's world and the wistfully humorous sketching of puppy-love. One recalls pleasantly over the years the beautiful Marjorie Jones of the golden curls, the twelve-year-old coquette who was so heart-breakingly cool and distant as she strolled inside...
...difficulty seems to lie more with the colleges than with the graduate schools. Many men who are intent on an eventual course of graduate study work hard while in college, but find themselves insufficiently prepared to carry on advanced research. The standards of the best graduate schools are high enough at present to ascertain that if a man can fulfill them, he should be able to make his way. It is evident that the laxity of the lower schools must be corrected first. Raising the requirements of the graduate schools would be only a vain attempt to rectify errors caused...