Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the Nanking Government dispatched formal notes to all States having relations with China. These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations." This was another owlish Chinese joke, designating as mere "bandits" the Manchukuoan and Mongol soldier puppets of Japan...
...strike-bound as the two seamen's factions battled for control. Most spectacular victory for Curran was delaying for eight hours the ship carrying Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Buenos Aires for the Pan- American Peace Conference. Most significant development was the shift of Eastern strikers from mere sympathy with Western strikers to identical active demands for themselves...
...fine disregard of mere money is exhibited in his rage at being presented a $50 story prize rather than a $25 poetry prize. The hostility which his literary criticism met in later years may actually have been due to the philistinism of his times, but in the play it appears mainly due to his idea that the U. S. literary scene consists of Edgar Allan Poe. He invades a party in the famed salon of Anne Lynch in Manhattan, threatens to thrash a man who is slandering his character, starts drinking from the punch bowl instead. His recital...
...snappy uniforms, the War Department has lumped together an assortment of unrelated subjects and called the whole thing "Military Science." The label of "science" is supposed to make the study of war the peer of the legitimate sciences. Somehow the assumed title of science elevates the R.O.T.C. above mere drilled routine and places it in the society of real institutions of learning...
...mere suggestion is probably an affront to professorial dignity; the grumblings about the "pressure of work" can almost be recognized now. Yet a few lectures a year are not going to break their backs, even if they assume the camel's form. English A suffers more from neglect than anything else. If English A is to be recognized for what it is, the most important course in college, if it is to accomplish what it sets out to do, make competent writers, it must be served by the moguls of the Department...