Word: remaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insull unless his health improves." Given his cue, Insull's Greek lawyer moaned: "It is impossible to imagine Mr. Insull traveling. He is practically dying as it is." His Greek doctor confined himself to: "Condition aggravated." In other words the Greek Government was ready to let him remain so long as he stayed in bed. But Ambassador MacVeagh wired the State Department that he was sure he could get Insull out of Greece within two weeks...
...powers of propaganda, organized industry, and science refine the fire of such combat to an intensity calculated to reduce the whole to a whiff of smoke and ashes. The largest nation left extant would be able to organize the world under one control, if it has been able to remain neutral. That this did not occur in the last "war" is due only to the fact that its battles, its slaughter, its campaigns were but puling chitchat in the cradle...
Until nearly a hundred years ago, almost any date seemed to suffice. But in 1855, Harvard contemplated celebrating its bicentenary and began to wonder about its age. Consequently, a committee was appointed to determine the facts. President Quincy, Joseph Story, and James Walker were chosen, and the records that remain suggest that their investigation stirred up some very polite but sharp dissension. Some of the letters exchanged show a pronounced tinge of bitterness...
Recognizing the unsatisfactory nature of present methods of admission to college, the report states vaguely that the most effective system is that based upon a continuous individual record of the student's activities in every sphere. The present system based upon standard examinations though unsatisfactory must remain until uniformity is achieved by the secondary schools. The Foundation has apparently not considered the possibility of devoting itself to this task. Proceeding to the colleges proper, the report attacks the dominant position of professors in assigning credits, but it fails to offer a substitute. In a similar manner the report discusses...
...past several weeks the newspapers have been filled with the aggressive speeches of Soviet leaders all asserting that Russia is more than ready for any Japanese attack, that, in fact, the Soviet armies will wipe up Manchuria with the Japs and throw their mangled remains into the sea; in addition to this, the Russians have given out specific estimates of the number of troops and airplanes which they have in the Far East, thus violating that essential point of military strategy, secrecy. All this bellicose public shouting by the Kremlin tough boys shows, I think, a certain pathological state...