Word: naught
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell himself has set at naught all rumors of his impending retirement. He has no intent to resign from the presidency of Harvard that the conclusion of the current academic year," the official statement declares; and we trust that this authentic word will give surcease at last from a condition which has long been embarrassing for all persons concerned. During the past two years a stream of rumors regarding President Lowell's intentions has flowed almost as constantly as its various currents have been confused and conflicting. How distasteful this activity has seemed to the president himself is now clearly...
...Manchuria last week. Japan's trained reserve, citizens well drilled and ready to spring to the colors, topped 1,750,000. On the sea Japan has an incomparably superior navy of 798.394 tons. The entire Chinese Navy (68 ships) does not displace as much as one British super-dread-naught (40,000 tons). Japanese opinion of Chinese fighting strength was expressed by a Government spokesman at Tokyo: "if China declares war on Japan, we will simply ignore...
...Poetry Room is to become a museum of first editions or for the forgotten verses of the later nineteenth century, the avowed purpose of the project is set at naught. But if it is to encourage an interest in poetry the admittedly valuable prose work must be relegated to another section of the library, the modern verse must be carefully selected and the collection of the masters greatly enlarged. The austerity which inevitably walks with first editions must be scrupulously avoided, and in its place must come the informal atmosphere which fosters literary enjoyment...
...blue flag drooped from a staff at the Commander's right. Most of the audience wore at least a bit of blue. Women in azure dresses and hats wore brooches with the motto: Fear God! Fear Naught! Men wore blue enameled cufflinks with the same motto in their blue cuffs. Outside Albert Hall waited several swank blue motor cars with the radiator emblem Fear God! Fear Naught! The blue blood of the British ruling class was up?this was the charter mass-meeting of Commander Locker-Lampson's blue-shirted "Sentinels of Empire," founded "to peacefully fight Bolshevism and clear...
...speeches at the mass meeting were made by Rear-Admiral Murray Eraser Sueter, M. P., and Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft. M. P., as well as by Commander Locker-Lampson, M. P. Cards printed as follows were distributed: "Do you approve of the use of Fear God! Fear Naught! as our motto? . . . the use of March On as our battle song? . . . the use of a distinctive color...