Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighty-four thousand copies of the same sutra, he says, were printed by order of Prince Ch'ien Su, of the Kingdom of Wu-yueh, and deposited in the cavities, made in the bricks user to build the pagoda on West Lake, Hangchow, which in later centuries became to be known as the Lai-Fung Pagoda. Tourists call it the Red Pagoda because of its color...
...with the fire and energy of the Revolutionary period, an episode which created such interest in the expedition itself, apart from any fictitious coloring, that Roberts decided to arrange the original diaries and letters of the men who participated in the expedition and present them to the public in order that it might comprehend more fully the true tale of the journey...
Roberts has arranged the journals in the order of their historical importance, placing the most valuable ones at the front of the book. The first is the diary of Lieut. John Montresor, a British officer, who scouted the course which Arnold's party took fourteen years later. It is accurate on the whole with regard to details of geography, except for the fateful omission of any mention of the huge swamps around Rush and Spider Lake. Arnold, using this diary as his guidebook, almost lost his entire army in the uncharted bogs...
...past. Another syllabus-baby, pretty enough to be carefully nurtured in Government 1 and adopted elsewhere, is the reprinting of excerpts from books which would otherwise have to be purchased. Less spectacular but of equal importance are other reorganizational steps concerning a change in reading material and a new order in the consideration of subject matter...
Many people will disagree with this book Often it seems to find in jazz more than actually is there in order to make such a life as Martin's possible. Nine-tenths of modern swing has not the creative urge behind it, yet it is the one-tenth which Miss Baker has singled out as the only genuinely important part, and she had done a great favor in telling the world that there is this one kind of jazz worth thinking about...