Word: nessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flight to India [where he was to succeed Lord Irwin as viceroy] and come home in safety while the Imperial Conference was sitting." Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding said Lord Thomson had told him not to let his judgment be swayed by his (Lord Thomson's) eager ness to be off; but he showed a memorandum from Lord Thomson insisting upon a take-off early in October...
...particular person or group. It is not the function of the faculty to dictate to the students. Harvard asks no blind subservience to the doctrines of any man. She bespeaks tolerance and fair play and respect for the sincere opinion of others. She frowns upon all narrow-ness; she resents the imputation of unworthy motives to those from whom we may happen to differ. Her motto is truth. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free...
...months similar Chinatown killings have happened sporadically in New York, Newark, N. J., Chicago. U. S. newsreaders who thought "Tong wars" carry-overs from the days of native pomp, crime, and paganism were mistaken. Tongs are not, never were, ancient Oriental groupings for feuds. They are, instead, practical busi ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities of any race. The laundry business (fast becoming a Chinese monopoly in the U. S. until the advent of steam-machinery from Troy...
...from the Indian and the wilder-ness...
...from infancy, he was constantly vowing to stop smoking. He wrote in his diary, on the walls of his room, the date on which he would smoke his last cigaret. The dates were soon in numerable. When his parents died. Zeno came into a fortune. He played with busi ness, gambled on the stock exchange. There he met shrewd, blunt Malfenti, who took a fancy to him, took him home to meet Signora Malfenti and his four daughters. Zeno instantly fell in love with the most beautiful, but he had such a genius for putting his foot...