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Word: racial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman. The Love of Kandahar: Romeo and Juliet among the haughty, feudmaking Afghans. They are keen-edged tales, scabbarded in language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ductless Patter* | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...hope it will be the last, for such an act implies the existence of differences unwarranted by geographical and racial circumstances on this continent. Chile . . . will do all in her power to help America exhibit this plebiscite to the world as a model and as a genuine expression of that self-determination of peoples which is the axle on which revolves the very political existence of the New World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plebiscite | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...Bancroft took his Japan post last November. He was thrust at once into a situation tense with another race problem, into a country where racial ill-will was running strong because of the U. S. Immigration Act of 1924. Then, if ever, he had a difficult task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Loss | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...Commission then studied the problem of rectifying errors in text books, which were alleged to be a mainspring of racial prejudices. A resolution, subsequently passed, empowered the Institute to call the attention of any country to such errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Intellectual Cooperation | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...affairs of the Russian church in the North American continent have habitually been in the law courts. New York City judges of many different creeds and racial extractions have had to decide between this and that claimant to the archepiscopal title and, by corollary, to the vast properties of the Church in this continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Nicholas | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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