Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalist China and the United States agreed that "all territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as . . . Formosa and the Pescadores shall be restored to the Republic of China." Since the Chinese had ceded Formosa and the Pescadores to Japan in a treaty at the end of the nineteenth century, the formal transfer of these islands had to await to Japanese peace treaty. No major power objected, however, when Chiang Kai-shek's forces occupied the island in 1945 and established the Nationalist government there...
...twentieth-century liberal has come to care less and less about variety, individuality, moral improvement. Whatever remains of nineteenth-century liberalism is rapidly sinking into an uninspired collectivism, which at best could bring to society only a dreary monotony. And I do not think that even this poor best could be realized. Although we might find it possible to extirpate heroism, we could scarcely succeed in extirpating villainy. The liberal imagination has run out; and what is best in our society will have to be saved by the advocates of some older and more stalwart system of thought...
...Yale Law has in a sense retreated from its advanced position on the legal battlefield, Harvard has discarded some of its nineteenth century armor for modern, imaginative weapons--weapons resembling Yale's former revolutionary doctrines. Dean Erwin Griswold jokingly says, "Yale talks about it; we do it." As he told the entering class in 1954, law "has deep roots in the past. It presents a continuity of development which must be understood if the law of the present is to be mastered. But it also has a flexibility, a capability for growth and development, which is as much a part...
...customs of the nineteenth century have survived: an open tobacco tin and an upstairs "lounge." At Leavitt's these are revered traditions, to be distinguished from its more modern day practices of posting University athletic notices and supplying free train schedules for over fifty railroads...
During Harvard Summer School, when Frank O'Connor discusses the nineteenth century novel, he does not disguise the fact that the only thing he thinks worthy of writing about is "the common feelings of common life." Esetericism he says may be perfectly well written but it has no more substance than a toy balloon. But O'Conner, unlike the great majority of realists, carries his theory further than his material. His is a common, clean response to the common feelings of common life. There are few, if any, symbols in his work; there is no prediction of doom. Frequently...