Word: looter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...managed to win a military scholarship and embraced the career of arms under the doomed Dragon Throne. When patriotic bombs began to pop, Chiang Kai-shek (then a stripling of 24) secured command of a revolutionary brigade in Shanghai and lived for several months the gay life of a looter, profligate ?drunken and debauched. Suddenly he cut short this spree and when convivial friends assembled to remonstrate he cried: ''You are my friends! My friends? Bah! I have given up your kind of life to give my real services to my country. . . . You are not MY friends...
...looter to the Herald Tribune a Yale alumnus sneers at the recent punishment of the freshman oarsmen, and then goes on to criticise the honor system itself. It does very well, he says, when applied to conduct, but has no place in the field of studies. And, shocking as his argument seems, one must concede that there is something in it. To begin with, the honor system as commonly practiced is less an honor system than a self-winding spy system. The student promises not only to accept no aid himself but also to report any student whom he sees...