Word: moods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia, riddled by the purges of the Trotskyite dissenters, was in no mood to fight a Far Eastern war on behalf of the Chinese. Great Britain, strongest European power in the Far East, was hamstrung by fears lest the year-old Civil War in Spain leap its national boundaries and rage through the Mediterranean and along the Rhine. The French Popular Front Government, bedeviled by fiscal troubles, was in no position to take part of the White Man's Burden in Asia on its sagging shoulders. The U. S., although its Navy was growing, had only recently passed...
...although the mood of graduation is simple and far from sombre, the several hundred Laertes who sit in the Quadrangle to-day cannot fail to carry away something of deeper tone than the note of momentary joy. Will they help achieve what the Class Orator saw as the need of civilization: intellectual integration? Will they contribute to the enthronement of those human values which can be the only means of preserving that balance between the individual and society which is freedom and the only way to insuring democracy? It may be, if in addition to the belief in the goodness...
...tumult of the moment," however complacent they may become in the face of wars and panics and clashing ideologies, there is still enough energy left in them for just a little tumult. Harvard's seniors are still interested in Harvard, and they are willing to disturb the mellow mood of returning alumni in order to explain that there are other changes at Harvard besides the House system, and that they are not all to the good...
...those resolutions, they are not the expressions of "a hot, hard-shelled, bone-picking mood." Baptists are devoted to the principle of absolute separation of Church and State. Their protests arise from this devotion. I assure you that the protests were without the slightest disrespect for the Catholics, the Catholic Church, or the exalted Heads of that Church. . . . The protest was an expression of the Baptist conviction derived from the Holy Scriptures and confirmed by bitter experience that absolute separation of Church and State is indispensable, and that every beginning in the direction of connection of Church and State ought...
...incidents were needed to sting Britain into a fighting mood, the Japanese seemed determined to supply them last week as: 1) they bayoneted a British employe of a British-owned Shanghai mill, let him bleed to death; 2) prepared to isolate the British Concession in Tientsin for harboring Chinese assassins; 3) arrested a British military attache and an officer at Kalgan for spying. Yet as the week ended the British and Japanese Empires were still technically at peace...