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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...population are under arms in the control of the several tuchuns (war lords) with conflicting ambitions. In the country there is a strong anti-foreign sentiment which in the south has been encouraged by the Bolsheviks, although the Chinese are too ignorant as a body for communism to mean anything to them. Then there are the foreign colonies and footholds of the powers, and their diplomatic representatives...
...From mean boarding houses walked poor Greeks and other underpaid theologs...
...said a black cat's- / mean bone. I swear to God my man's got a black...
Teaching Mrs. Coolidge to swim doesn't mean a thing to me. I'm not all athrill when I lift her head or direct her hands. She is to me like every other student...
...record brain weight, 74 ounces, was that of Turgeniev, Russian writer. There are records of a few 60-ounce brains, and quite a few in the 50's (including Thackeray, Daniel Webster, Napoleon). But more significant than brain weight are the convolutions of the brain - more convolutions mean more surface area, and the brain thinks on its surface...