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...advance of the Nationalist army into Shanghai by twos and threes. Their propaganda, mostly in English, has taken good effect. Last week all transport workers of Shanghai and the employes of several mills went on strike?prepared to revolt and join the Nationalist army when it should draw nearer...
...addition of libraries and dining halls both the Freshman and the Business School Dormitories become more independent as units within the University. They are physically nearer the English colleges as they exist at Oxford and Cambridge and therefore in harmony with the suggestions, laid down in the Student Council Report of last Spring which expected the development of relatively small self-sufficient communities to provide better anchorage for individual members than the high seas of the University as a whole...
...next few moments we counted some thirteen or fourteen riders, all of whom seemed to have chosen us as a common goal. We urged our camels to a trot and then to a gallop, while the wind continued to rise and the air to fill with dust. Nearer came the riders, gaining rapidly, so that it seemed that half an hour would bring them upon us. Ten minutes more and we ran into a dried river course, filled with smooth, rounded stones, the most treacherous footing imaginable. Over this our camels slipped and floundered desperately, while Hamida rasped furious curses...
...last moments of the campaign the Premier's son, Oliver Baldwin, roundly declared: "England is nearer to revolution than ever before!" To this Premier Baldwin replied through his daughter Betty, who drove the Conservative candidate about Smethwick in her open two-seater, electioneering in his behalf. Said she: "I hope what little I could do counteracted to some extent my brother's words...
...pick off anybody meaning with the intention of discovering a deep and profound symbolism, a meaning, or a moral, in it. The old theatre was intended for pure entertainment; and without prejudice to profundity in the theatre, the present effort goes back to that ancient tradition. It is nearer to knockabout farce than it is to lesbian its source is the theatre in which the Slapstick was the great instrument of percussion and of humor...