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...Japan to cripple that part of this area within the Great Wall by demanding that its local Government, the Peiping Political Council, be abolished. Nanking could not refuse but the adroitness with which Premier Wang & Cabinet yielded caused Japan's Military Attache in Peiping to exclaim in puzzlement: "I do not regret the abolition of the Council, but the Chinese did it suddenly, without talking to us in advance. That is not so kind. And apparently they did not decide who is going to be responsible in the Council's place to negotiate with the Japanese Army...
...knows better than Professor Edward Lee Thorndike that the schoolchild will close his dictionary in puzzlement, forget he ever wanted to know about candles. A quarter century ago Columbia's famed educational psychologist decided that something must be done for the millions & millions of youngsters between 10 and 15 who have to struggle with such monstrous definitions. That decision bore fruit last week when the Thorndike-Century Junior Dictionary came off Chicago presses...
...Harvard Man Should Know. A shiny new car droe up, bearing on its radiator cap an eye-attracting made chromium figure. The two Freshmen gazed at it a moment, then suddenly rushed down to the curb for a closer look. They peered at the statuette closely, ouriously, in apparent puzzlement. Them, with a quick beam of vadiance, "We'll ask Dr. Worcester...
William Bloor has been the signalman at Winwick Junction for 21 years. A tall, middleaged, careful-minded, precise-spoken Briton who had never before had an accident on his section, he spoke with genuine puzzlement: ''So far as the down line is concerned, my mind is a blank...
...present Chamber has patently not "found itself." Its Deputies are so assorted that they should (French wiseacres agree) support a Cabinet of the moderate Left. But two such Cabinets have been capriciously kicked out at moments of national crisis. Last week President Albert Lebrun wondered with profound puzzlement whom to pick as the next premier...