Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...very glad to have your letter of regret and apology for the Crimson's absurd and false report of my talk at Leverett House. If future boards emulate your desire to "take every conceivable step to prevent any recurrence of the same trouble:", perhaps some good will come out of evil, The evil is not confined to the wrong to the individual when there may be general university or public interests involved...
Professionally, the greatest regret of Dean Pound's career was his service on the National (Wickersham) Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement, whose curious straddle on Prohibition he did his best to defend. Personally, the time in Washington was well spent, for between sessions he courted his second wife. With her he has lately taken junkets to Europe and Hawaii, will probably find time for more after his retirement...
When questoned, Head Coach Dick Harlow expressed great regret. "Bob is a fine boy and has been a great captain", the football chief said. Eddie Casey, who was Haley's coach throughout his college career, likewise expressed great regret. "I am very sorry to hear of this," he said. "He will be a great loss to the team...
...Senator Huey Long and Comptroller General John R. McCarl, was preparing to drop his hot potatoes as fast as he could. Senator Long had filibustered to death the Third Deficiency Bill containing an appropriation for enforcement of potato control (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Secretary Wallace announced without apparent regret that Comptroller McCarl was unwilling to let AAA draw enforcement funds from other sources. "I found," smiled the Secretary, "that funds just didn't seem to be there. That may not sound very logical but that's the way life is. ... There's nothing much...