Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here this excellent film ends, and so we never find out who won, America or the Best of the World. But pacifism is clearly defeated. It suffers three main disadvantages from the start. Firstly, the drama itself, laid only seven years hence, holds no comfort for the advocates of Disarmament, and the incredible pictures of a night bombardment of Manhattan from the air is portentous. Secondly, Phillips Holmes, in looks and actions, is a pacifist of the old school,". . . people used to call me yellow." And thirdly, the peace-loving masses are mostly, women, and talk incessantly of "women...
...actually met a Waln till a Lin husband and wife, touring the Western World, called on Nora Waln when she was a student at Swarthmore. They invited her to visit them in China; in 1920 she did, and liked it so well she is still a Chinese resident. Main house of the Lins is in Canton, but her friends were members of the Hopei branch. Their "House of Exile" has been occupied by the family for only 35 generations, so the Canton Lins refer to them as "temporarily from home." A huge, rambling affair of one-roomed "houses" connected...
...weekly lectures, which are given by an imposing roster of all the shining lights of the department, are lamentably disappointing. The course has been aptly called a revue; it should be added that the songs and dances of the professorial chorines are in the main dusty and dull. Instead of creating vivid pictures of the great English men of letters and their work, most of the lecturers, through sloth or indifference, confine themselves to a leisurely recounting of when an author lived, where he went to school, what he wrote, and what critics have said about him since...
...promulgated by the Brown Daily Herald. Moreover, undergraduates will attach far more significance to such a poll, when it is conducted by the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council than when it is conducted by an undergraduate journal whose activity in a case of this sort is at best secondary to its main objectives...
...member of the Provincial congress, to set up a hospital at what is now 95 Brattle Street. The wounded British prisoners were taken there, and within two months Dr. Foster and his staff of assistants recruited from among the undergraduates of the College, were maintaining the main sick bay of the army. From this emergency station developed the present Harvard Medical School...