Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China without first dominating Korea. So, the samurai were out to got Korea by chicanery. Since the signing of the first treaty in 1876, they wooed the Korean friendship. In declaring war on Russia the Japanese Emperor said, "Separate existence of Korea is essential to the safety of our realm." And Japan unduly influenced Korea to sign a treaty of defensive an defensive alliance against Russia on February 23, 1904. Article III of the treaty read: "The Imperial Government of Japan, definitely guarantees the independence and territorial integrity of the Korean Empire." Japan also solemnly pledged to evacuate her troops...
...Lunaire is the last word in cacophony and musical anarchy. Some day it may be pointed out as of historical interest, because it represents the turning point, for the outraged muse surely can endure no more of this. Such noise must drive even the moonstruck Pierrot back to the realm of real music. Albertine Zehme . . . repeated the poems while a musical, or rather, unmusical ensemble . . . discoursed the most car splitting combination of tones ever to desecrate the walls of a Berlin music hall...
...precarious balance of thought lay in its being made up of a belief in the value of reason, an immense ethical fervor, a concrete and massive knowledge, and a firm insistence on our limiting ourselves to what is compassable. "When things become too big, they are taken beyond the realm of the compassable. They don't work. The human mind cannot contain them. They become tyrannical," he wrote...
...insurance against damage in the bombing of New York, Washington, Boston, or other American cities, at odds of 1000 to 1. Such odds, of course, might just as well be 1,000,000 to 1. They mean that the bombing of this country lies not even remotely within the realm of reasonable possibility...
...London British public opinion grumbled that the royal bootsman should himself be given the boot. Increasingly fed up were the Allies with his shilly-shallying over a clause in the peace terms which called for delivery of all German nationals in his realm. One day last week the British expected to start 225 Nazis rolling from Teheran for internment in India; the Russians had earmarked 50 for Soviet sojourn. After 24 hours of diddle-dumpling run-around from the German Legation, the British received 72 prisoners, the Russians eight. The Allies threatened to get good & tough (i.e., to occupy Teheran...