Word: periode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bring an end to Chinese resistance. Chinese national consciousness is becoming a hardy plant, and there are now other good Chinese generals, notably Li Tsung-jen and Pai Chung-hsi of the crack Kwangsi army, who might carry on. But the death of Chiang might mean a short period of struggle for power within China. With such a struggle for power going on, Japan could terminate hostilities without loss of Face...
...shek's railway supply line, the Chinese lost the route by which they were accustomed to receive munitions from British Hong Kong. This terrific blow caused western wiseacres to proclaim that Japan had won the war. But the capture of the Canton-Hankow railway terminals instituted a new period of Chinese resistance. With Chiang's capital removed to Chungking in interior Szechwan, a new motor road was completed across mountain ranges and torrid jungles to British Burma, which fronts on the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Other routes have been kept open from Yunnan to French...
...putting into effect the recommendations of the report there has been still less effort to foster the development and expression of Faculty opinion than there was in adopting it. . . . it is safe to say that no other period in the history of the University has seen so many final decisions, respecting the future of such promising scholars, reached in so short a time. . . . To the fact of such decisions no objection, of course, can be made. But merely to state their number and the speed with which they have been reached is to state also that the deliberative procedures envisaged...
...years. On the other hand, teachers of developing capacity are given every possible incentive, unintentional as well as intentional, not to crowd the eight-year limit. These losses are being tragically multiplied by a growing conviction, which no one can welcome, that an appointment in the University for whatever period--even if can be secured--is less and less to be desired...
...been his rebirth too. Cupid, Puck, and Duty have fought for his attention, and he has reveled in their very battling. Once, so long ago, when he was a mewling prepster. June meant the end of another school year was near. It meant only that summer--an idyllic period of freedom and fun--approached. It meant a return to those hazy blue mountains which Vag loves...