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Word: persons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper, wrote: "In order to insure the safety of Japanese residents at Nanking, I endured, from the Chinese, insults which no Japanese can tolerate. The lives of the Japanese refugees could be saved, but I am ashamed that the honor of the Japanese navy has been disgraced in my person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Four groups of 12 students, each group led by an American professor or some other person qualified for leadership are to tour Russia this summer under the auspices of the National Student Federation of America in cooperation with the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the U. S. S. R. and the All Russian Central Students Bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR STUDENT GROUPS TO TOUR RUSSIA UNDER AUSPICES OF THE N. S. F. A. | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

...When I arrived in Holland," writes Wilhelm in his memoirs, "a crowd at Enkhuizen ... by an unmistakable gesture toward the neck followed by an upward movement of the hand . . . made clear to me how thoroughly the caricature of my person produced and disseminated by Entente propaganda had fixed itself in their minds. . . . Like a prisoner, like an outlaw, I move among these Hollanders who turn away their lowering, shy visages as they pass, or, at most, look askance at me with half-closed eyes. I am the bloodthirsty babykiller ; people are embittered against the Dutch Government . . . for letting me roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shamefully Maligned | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...addition to the same fatherland? Does the same spirit animate him that kindled the oratorical fires of the king of Sophists? If so he is a unique species. Centuries have brought changes to all countries but none so striking as those to Greece. Occasionally one runs across a person possessed of the true Grecian spirit. The proposition of Socrates modern defender would appear to indicate that he is not among that sacred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASE DISMISSED | 4/2/1927 | See Source »

...seems there was once a person who though that football was not a disease, except of sport writers, who thought that "bridge" was over emphasized as well as education, who believed that the Harvard of today is a fairly decent place despite the Liberal Club, the Lampoon, the final clubs, two or three others and the fact that Coolidge is still living away from home, who had a vague idea Boston was more a state of the mind than the mind of a state, who, in spite of his being averse to the traffic on Harvard Square met it half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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