Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With China more than ever prostrated by her white-man-made silver crisis, Japanese Army commanders in Manchukuo and at Boxer Protocol garrisons in North China proceeded to make impossible demands on the Chinese Government, demands the mere granting of which would mean the abdication of the Chinese Government in North China...
...gone down the drain, it is high time that University Hall turn its attention to the problem of determining what criteria should be adopted to judge a man's fitness to enter into the broad field that the Freshman year is so properly becoming. Certainly some other standards than mere grades on College Boards must be selected. The problem is vital, and will take great pains to solve. In many ways it is a cause for wonder that with scholastic standards as diverse as they are in different sections of the United States there are not less misfits in each...
...most convincing evidence that the Constitution itself, not the will of five obstinate old men who happened to be a majority, had interdicted the policies of the New Deal. By unanimity the Court saved itself from serious criticism, avoided the immediate recurrence of political appeals to deny a mere majority of the Justices the right to declare a law unconstitutional...
There must be many who wonder, as does Mr. Donham in his letter, "just what is wrong with Mr. Hearst, his news-reels, or his newspapers." In the eyes of many--all too many--the Hearst papers' greatest sin is their sensationalism. But the evil goes far deeper than mere lack of a sane perspective: and the realization that even intelligent men fail to appreciate the danger in Hearst's reporting, interpretation, and selection of news is arresting...
...thousand pounds of lobster were a mere nothing. Up the broad Plata nosed the Brazilian battleship São Paulo with President Vargas aboard, the cruisers Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul, escorted by two Argentine battleships, six cruisers and a squadron of destroyers. High overhead zoomed a squadron of 13 Brazilian naval planes that had flown all the way from Rio de Janeiro. There should have been 18, but three were forced down at Rio Grande do Sul and two were reported missing. Crowds along the waterfront cheered the survivors to the echo...