Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause. The names of the chief recipients of this year's honorary degrees from Harvard indicate that the selection has been dictated by the highest standards. Certainly the recognition bestowed on "Al" Smith will be applauded by everyone who appreciates the spirit of Professor Whitehead's reputed remark, that Governor Smith knows more about the theory of government than any living man. In his case, the University brushes aside externals to salute the disinterested sprit which is common to both scholarship and public service. Such an award is the only fundamental justification for the bestowing of honorary degrees...
This thesis seems vindicated by the resignation of the defeated Chiang, and the termination of the menace which his unbridled hosts held for foreign interests in Manchuria. There is much pith in the remark that Japan might also have been literal about Chinese treaties if an anarchic China had been two thousand miles from her frontiers, and if her interests were as small as Great Britain's much touted Persian oil wells. But it is clear that no adult judgment of Japan's conduct can be made until the charges that she bribed the revolting Chinese governments are either substantiated...
...power shut off. She said it was "as easy as a spring bed.'' The city fireman rescued her from her high perch ... I wanted to correct the impression that the Bonettes are believed to be the only hot air balloonists now in the business. I arise to remark there are quite a few of us left...
...years ago, when all British politicians preached free trade, this would have been an unexceptionable remark from the Heir to the Throne. Today there is a potent group in the National Govern-ment who, having swallowed a high tariff and the idea of economic nationalism within the Empire, find it very much to their liking. Leader of this group is long-necked Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer and head of Britain's delegation at the W. E. C. Chancellor Chamberlain, making his last official speech before the Conference's opening, seemed to be replying...
When a point in John Pierpont Morgan's first day testimony before the Senate subcommittee provoked a long and involved colloquy, Banker Morgan made the deprecating remark: "I'm sorry I started such a hare." The hare of that particular argument was tiny, tame, soon forgotten. But the big, wild hare that was started by Banker Morgan seating his bulky frame in the witness chair, bounded across the front pages of the nation's Press for the rest of the week, leaving a redolent, black trail of streamer headlines...