Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...failure to resist the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 24) were followed last week by definite news that he had been executed at Hankow by a firing squad. Said Shanghai's Daily China Press, which the distant Chinese Government still controls: "The shamelessness of many Chinese generals in the recent past is indeed appalling. Even in the days of the defunct [Imperial] Manchu regime responsible generals were wont to resort to suicide in attempts to redeem their personal honor...
...critical comment is in place here. That has already been made in many instances in the catalogues where they have been shown, in America and in Europe. The more recent acquisitions have also been published in the Museum's Bulletin and elsewhere by Miss Agnes Mongan, Keeper of Drawings at the Museum. But it is worth noting that proportion has been made among the many masters and schools. And some outline should be given of what awaits a visitor, whether he is a connoisseur who knows the field, or a layman who would go far to see a drawing made...
When the British author Mr. H. G. Wells mentioned in his recent magazine article that President Conant might make an excellent presidential possibility some day, he may have been echoing the feelings of many people who have dealt with the present head of the University. Those who have transacted business with him in University Hall, or have seen him about the country on his various missionary expeditions, have been impressed with his personality and with the way in which he has transferred his allegiance from research in science to an administrative position which calls for sterling abilities...
...Crimson will really be out to win, for it has been many a day since the club took a series from the Eli basketball five, and this is beginning to look like the year to do it. Yale has regularly been taking the rap in league contests, although their recent defeat of Army makes things look much more ominous...
There still remain forty metal groups whose alloy characteristics have yet to be studied, and whose possible industrial application is still in its infancy. Their development may mean as much to industry as the relatively recent development of such alloys as stainless steel, or tungsten carbide used in high speed machinery...