Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real returns, however, lie in other directions. It is an inestimable privilege to be able to talk to people week after week on the most important and insistent interests of life. And it is an increasing satisfaction to know about the problems which beset all ranges of human experience and to touch life form every angle at every period of its development. For one who has once known the joys of the Christian ministry, there is no other form of human activity that can be compared with it in the extent of its influence or in the solid and enduring...
...public opinion is aroused, threats of war have been made--even official Tokio assumes to be "touched and grieved." But it is well to remember that Japanese immigrants in California mean nothing in comparison with Japan's imperialistic ambitions; it is in Siberia, Manchuria, China, that her real interests lie. America has been distinctly curious concerning these interests during the past year or two. It has befriended Chinese complaints; it has asked pointed questions. May it not well be that the immigration excitement has been merely a smoke screen a purposely, created situation for the gaining of concessions? Perhaps Japan...
...prepared to fight for a "White Australia," the question of Asiatic immigration has lain dormant, at least in so far as the public eye can observe. Evidently no one has dared to broach the subject after the Premier's fiery outburst,--thinking it best to "let sleeping dogs lie...
...attitude of the New England states toward this California problem is analogous to their attitude toward the South for the several decades immediately after the Civil War. They do not see why two utterly different and incompatible racial groups cannot lie down together like lambs. The fact of race hatred, like any other of the irrational and abstractedly reprehensible dispositions of man, cannot be wished or argued away. In order that this fact may appear it is necessary that the incompatible races should be actually in contact, working and competing with one another. It appears in the West for this...
...This figure does not represent the real popularity of Engineering, as most men whose tastes and abilities lie in this direction are registered in the Engineering School rather than in the College...