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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only words which indicate a desire for peace but-before we can enter upon that final settlement -we shall want to see some concrete evidence of a willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements for, if not disarmament, at any rate a limitation of armaments." This did not mean that "appeasement" was to be abandoned-on the contrary, Mr. Chamberlain assured the House that "it is steadily succeeding"-but it was about as close as the Prime Minister has ever come to adopting the attitude of "deeds, not words" held by Anthony Eden and many of Chamberlain...
...most U. S. ears, Chinese music is at best incomprehensible, at worst a painful noise. To Chinese ears and minds it is not only pleasant but instructive. Philosopher K'ung Fu-tze (Confucius), himself a ch'in (zither) player of no mean order, considered music one of the six fundamental factors in education. In China's great days, music was a required subject for budding administrators. Hundreds of learned books were written about...
Miss Bennett bowls a mean 160 when she is in top form, and the other three members of the team claim that they can give any Harvard man a good fight...
...doubt very bad-no question about it-that Mr. Hitler is mean to the Jews, and it is a grievous performance. But, what irks me is that these exhibitions of high ethics that my fellow-countrymen indulge in, only occur when the villain is an ENEMY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE...
Serene, courtly President Henry Sloane Coffin of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary said in Buffalo that he hoped that Episcopalians "really mean business" in planning the union. Said he: "We Presbyterians mean it. We will wait, because we have Scotch caution. . . . [But] if we asked for reordination at our general assembly, we would have a revolt on our hands. . . . We Presbyterians have no question of the validity of our ministry...