Word: remain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty is to remain in force for ten years, unless six months' notice of termination is given by either party...
...conclave with the Elder Statesman, Marquis Saionji, and although Minister of Home Affairs Rentaro Mizuno enjoined the Premier to hold on to office, it was not thought that the Premier would attempt it nor that Elder Statesman Saionji would recommend it. It was stated, however, that the Premier would remain in office until June 4, when the State celebration of Crown Prince Hirohito's wedding* (TIME, April 7) will have been held. Upon this date the Diet assembles and Kiyoura Government is expected to resign. The next Premier is likely to be Viscount Takaaki Kato†, four times Foreign...
...from the editorship of the Literary Review of The New York Evening Post (TIME, May 19), The Nation, pinko-political review in Manhattan, was endowed with a bit of clairvoyance. It declared: "In these days of unprecedented interest in good literature, it is hard to believe that he can remain without a medium. Even if under another name the urbane spirit of the Literary Review must surely live...
...which the undergraduate voter takes to balloting of any yariety. If the members of the new Council are to be anything but figureheads, the electorate must, exercise a certain discriminating interest which has not in the past been strikingly evident. Because of this obvious weakness, the new plan must remain, temporarily at least, nothing more than an experiment. The earliest indications of success or failure will be largely determined by the interest displayed in these first elections, and by the calibre of the candidates chosen for office...
...weapons in that unimaginable armory which will supply the armies of the Next War. We have already gas of such potency that it will lay waste whole cities; the "ray" is not so deadly as this; it attacks only the specific object at which it is directed. And there remains the justifiable skepticism in the ability of all of these lethal toys to perform in action as atipulated. After all, they must be operated by human beings, and, human beings are vulnerable. Probably the horrors of war will be increased, but its effectiveness, which has not increased with modern weapons...