Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very anxious that these meetings may be gatherings of an informal nature, with none of the atmosphere of a lecture," said Professor Garrod last night. "I do not want to spend the time delivering a monologue; that will deprive the gatherings of any advantage they might offer for the informal, interesting discussion of subjects which students will, I hope, suggest...
...buildings (29 of them already finished) which do no violence to the memory of the Manchu prince of whose summer-palace their grounds were once a part. The present Chinese government has retained Mr. Murphy for an extremely ambitious building program in Nanking, new Chinese capitol (TIME, May...
...Road to Buenos Aires. His latest excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk...
...chaotic sweep of armies and tenderly quiescent love. In its sustained, inexorable movement, its throbbing preoccupation with flesh and blood and nerves rather than the fanciful fabrics of intellect, it fulfills the prophecies that his most excited admirers have made about Ernest Hemingway. His mannered style, consciously bald, may still be annoying to some, but its pulsing innuendo cannot be denied...
...reorganizing of third year teaching. One of the greatest faults heretofore has been the continual moving about of the third year instructors. To improve the situation, it has been arranged to have longer assignments for each man to one hospital, in order that the work of the third year may be coordinated...