Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buffoonery is not lasting. Mr. Sherman has illumined that fact many times with the light of common sense. And if she must bury herself, it must be in real life, exactly as the American saga is doing. That the new saga lacks humor is pathetic but too evident to remain surprising. So Mr. Sherman points the only path to creative heights. It lies among the uncluttered hills, upon the uncluttered plains, in the cluttered hearts of the simple people. In truth, the future of the American novel seems to lie just there--is the esoteric simple...
...members had resigned as a protest against the pacts (TIME, Nov. 2). He "carried on" with a "rump" cabinet and drew fire from the Socialist Vorwaerts as follows: "It is naive indeed for the present Government's supporters to behave as though nothing had happened and Luther must remain the eternal Chancellor of the German Republic...
Although more than 500 students sailed for New York last night, and although railroad officials reported heavy demands for transportation to Princeton, enough students are expected to remain in Cambridge over the week-end to fill the Union Living Room for the Princeton grid-graph reports this afternoon...
Looking back over his own academic career at Princeton, Mr. Jesse Lynch Williams, writing in the current Scribners, waxes facetious over the dismay of newly entered students these days when they find that college entails some work. "The older college generation went to college for an education, but remained to have the time of their lives," he says. "The members of the new generation go to college for a good time, but get an education--if they remain...
...trying to gain control of China. There are 21 provinces in China now; in my diocese, which is composed of one and a half provinces, there are more people than in France and England put together. Yet linguistically, culturally, and racially the people are homogeneous, and so China will remain a unit...