Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course. It is not hard for a teacher to post at the library a copy of his own outline of the term reading and lectures, tying the one to the other. Presently, nonetheless, only twenty one courses issue any sort of a list to Widener or Boylston, and a mere handful of these wholly show the connection between the reading assignments and lectures. The men in Economics 61a, Government 1 and History 1, and like courses appreciate the care which the instructors take to fluence should transcend the membership lines print outlines of the work; in many other instances...
...overly dramatising this case to point to the corrollaries of academic bondage. In other lands control of schools has suggested control of the press--then of speech. At such a stage the term civil rights is mere verbage. Princetonian
...broadcast from Sian having said the Dictator was dead. The kidnapper had indeed broadcast, said the Nanking Government, and the modern electrical transcription machinery of Nanking Central Broadcasting Co. had recorded what he actually said. Before quoting his words, the Government called the Young Marshal and his troops "mere bandits," declared it was beneath the Government's dignity to treat with young Chang, and clarioned that for him to be killed by a Chinese process of slow torture known as "the 10,000 Deaths" would be an insufficient expiation of his monstrous crime in kidnapping the Dictator. After this...
This was clear enough to anyone who recalls what Japan has been putting over on China in recent years. In Shanghai the mere suspicion that a Chinese had thrown a pear core out the window of a restaurant at a Japanese sailor was taken by Japan as an excuse to land hundreds of marines, exact abject apologies from Chinese authorities (TIME, Oct. 5), and even now the Chinese restaurant proprietor is forced to call every day upon the Japanese marine commander in Shanghai and report what progress is being made in catching the Chinese thrower of that pear core...
...Conference: "In talking with some educational experts, I find that they envision a future requirement of something in the order of 15,000 stations to serve the 127,000 school districts in this country alone. . . . The present radio spectrum from ten to 30,000 kilocycles would be a mere 'drop in the bucket' in the solution of the educational radio problem...