Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last question, hitherto shelved by British diplomacy, was what last week ingratiated Soviet Russia at the same time that it irked Germany. The Russian objection that the British note gave unlimited opportunity for evasion was precisely its virtue in the eyes of the British gentlemen who framed it. Last week, after preliminary secrecy, the note was printed simultaneously in British and German newspapers. Commented the Frankfurter Zeitung sagely: ''Questions can be asked because you want to know what someone thinks or intends to do. They can be asked because you do not know yourself what you want...
...Benito Mussolini who until last week France had always assumed would be "reasonable." Highly unreasonable to Paris sounded the Italian's speech proposing to take care of Ethiopia all by himself. Therefore French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin made haste to post off to Rome the sharpest note he had yet sent Benito Mussolini...
With divisional exams almost ever, finals approaching, and Seniors turning their thoughts to Degrees with Honors, it is interesting to note the number of men who received Honors in previous years and the percentages of summa cum laude degrees awarded in each year...
...author attempts to trace through her scene in the southeast part of Yorkshire the pattern of "the complex tangle of motives prompting public decisions, the unforeseen consequences of their enactment on private lives." Readers unfamiliar with English local government will do well to turn to Vera Brittain's note (in an appendix) explaining the history and functions of county councils...
Then came the dawn. Our solitary man rubbed his eyes and stretched lazily. Where the devil was he? The note caught his eye, and he read: "Meet you at the New Yorker, ten o'clock." Gentic reader, Lord forbid the reoccurrence of such a hopeless, stupid physiognomy across the face of any man! Troubles never come singly. He had three classes that very morning; he was on pro; he had exactly one dollar in his pocket, and here he was way down South in New York City. Things looked awfully ominous. He set out for the New Yorker...