Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your account of the Premier of Japan's dinner party in your issue of July 31, is absurdly incorrect. The account gives a lurid picture of nervous excitement here in Tokyo which we who live here do not recognize. "After grim days of extreme alarm . . . tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party." But the "grim alarm" and the "tension" were not enough to keep the Premier and Viscountess Saito from coming unconcernedly to my humble home the week before to drink coffee and eat doughnuts with a crowd of guests. The dinner party you describe...
...President of the U. S. has commanded you to go back to work. Any union or union officials who refuse to obey that command will not live long...
...more ringing of bells early in the morning now than there is "bolsterous music or playing upon drums," (as the parietal regulations put it), at night. Yet last year it took a tinpan obligate to suppress the Sunday morning cartoonists of Lowell House Tower. Even now, we live in continual dread of the Russian Bells, which might start at any minute, announcing the decreasing sobriety of Lowell House tutors. Perhaps President Conant might decree another act of mercy and cut these bells...
...Under your wise leadership, may Harvard be a preeminent focus for true scholarship, and patient endeavor to push back a little the veil of mystery that everywhere surrounds us. Here may inspired teachers convince the best of the aspiring youth of this distracted country that man cannot live by bread alone: that in a just estimate of the real values of life, the spiritual far outweighs the material...
What The Fool is to the stage, to an even greater degree a novel called In His Steps has been to literature. Written in 1896 by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon, Congregational minister of Topeka, Kans., In His Steps tells of a preacher who not only tried to live as Christ would have lived in modern times but succeeded in starting a great movement among laymen who pledged themselves to do likewise. Translated in 21 languages, published under 47 different foreign imprints, In His Steps has sold more than 25,000,000 copies, sometimes trailing only the Bible as a bestseller...