Word: main
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chang, victorious traitor, quickly moved a division of his troops into Shanghai, sent his main army to reinforce the troops of Sun which had continued all the while their stubborn resistance to the Nationalist attack upon Shanghai...
...main considerations moved the Faculty to its decision. It believes that the teaching staff has too much to do and that the students will profit by less instruction and more independent study...
...with caution, forethought minute attention, and rigid determination to exact the responsibility that goes with freedom, it will either accomplish nothing or will wreck more students than we can afford to lose. Advisers, assistants, course instructors, examiners, and "the Office," all must put their shoulders to the wheel. Our main reliance is upon the tutors. Without them the plan would never have been suggested and without their hearty cooperation it cannot succeed. Their intimate personal relationship with their students will count for more than any other safeguard. The work of assistants must continue to improve. The technique of course lecturing...
...verse is in the main respectable. Haven Hubbard's "Since you have Waned from Us" touches the chord of sentimental melancholy gently and sweetly. Mr. Riche's "To One Who Goes into the Night" has simple tenderness and sincerity. Phillip Hitchborn's "Foam-White", equally neat in its versification, falls however, to escape artificiality, and James Thomas Flexner's "Resurrection" does not reach the maturity of though and emotion which the subject demands...
Western Maryland's controlling shares owned by John D. Rockefeller Sr. were sold to the B. & O. A 25-year-old ordinance of the City of Baltimore, which once owned the Western Maryland, provides that this road be sold to no railroad that has main terminals in Baltimore or Philadelphia. The intent has been to provide several railroad channels for traffic to the Port of Baltimore. This may handicap the present sale...