Word: occidentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"The sun does not yoke his steeds so remote from the Yard and the Square, that we on this occident shore, whither also Harvard's alumni have ventured, are insensate to your ninety beautiful years. To think that your ninety years look back to that little day when this great...
Japanese standards of decency and morality are entirely different from those of the Occident. But even so, it was found that every one of the 16 papers printed several undesirable advertisements; that over 2½% of the advertising matter was objectionable; that well over 100 columns of offensive matter was...
Those who have even a slight acquaintance with the works of Rider Haggard know that to read any of the fifty-odd mystery romances that have flowed from his prolific pen, one must leave the commonplace life of the unemotional occident and journey through strange lands and among strange peoples...
Herr Oswald Sprengler, the German historian whose book, Downfall of the Occident, was one of the sensations of the past few years, accuses France of carrying on Napoleon's ambitions: "When Napoleon founded the Grand Duchy of Berg in the Ruhr Basin and the Kingdom of Westphalia he observed...
From the point of view of the Caucasian race, Oriental nations always do things wrong-way-round. They are always out of step in the march of events, and usually a little behind; but lately Japan has been ahead of time-again from the point of view of the Occident...