Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai line but also down the Peking-Hankow railway, and last week the war was going great guns in the U-shaped area these roads make with "China's Hindenburg Line." This is not a closely coordinated system of defenses like the French Maginot Line, but over a period of years the Chinese have built important numbers of cement pillbox forts in a sausage-shaped area. This is traversed by the curiously named Lung-hai Railway, so called because it starts from the sea at Haichow and penetrates far inland toward Lung mountain in Kansu, forming today the sole...
...decided to break forever with Bolshevism. In [Tsarist] Russia Joseph Stalin says with his pretense of infallibility, there prevailed 'the darkest terror of a police dictatorship.' . . . In reality never has the [Russian] working class suffered such privations as have been inflicted upon it in the period of so-called Socialization. ... I have been able to speak with many workers who still remember and liked work in the old Russia. They remember it still as a hazy mirage because their salaries then guaranteed them sufficient food and the possibility of clothing themselves decently. ... I lived...
...when the first bell chimed is lost in Oriental antiquity, but most authorities agree that bells, as distinguished from gongs, cymbals and tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold...
...Hatter, but Summer School courses are much less weighty. The gaps in a man's knowledge of his field, often in branches which are not ordinarily covered by the regular courses, can be filled. Last minute tutorial cramming for Divisionals can be avoided by covering a period which has been neglected. Thirdly, many courses given in alternate years, which cannot be taken because of schedule conflicts, are given in Summer School...
...work of necessity includes a predominance of women's roles. These will be filled in the coming performance by members of the Radcliffe Choral Society, who promise to be more than capable. Both they and the male leads will be aided in their interpretation by a short period of work on Purcell's "King Arthur" under Mlle. Nadia Boulanger...