Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Sturtevant, who is recognized as one of the outstanding geneticists in the country, has been professor of Genetics at California, Institute of Technology since 1928.
"When our treaty with Japan expires on January 26, our relations will have an indefinite basis, and there will be no way of settling such matters as travel, residence, and commercial business." Fairbank explained.
The State Department abrogated the Japanese treaty last summer and, in Fairbank's view, it will be very difficult to draw up a new one because of the hundreds of unsettled complaints of American citizens against Japan.
"The situation is even more complicated." he declared, "by the extreme disagreement between Japan's foreign policy and ours. They talk of a new order in East Asia, an order dominated by Japan and subordinating all the great western powers."
The Civil Aeronautics Authority's flying course at Harvard was a fine idea, and everybody realized, it, including the one hundred and forty students who sought the original fifty vacancies this fall. But thus, far there has been so much red tape and so many delays while the local authorities...