Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well," said he to Peiping's Mayor Chang Yen-wu, "it seems like being home again." Turning to a group of Nanking officials, he repeated the same remark in Mandarin Chinese. Chinamen applauded...
...Brooklyn Navy Yard, the eleven million dollar cruiser Pensacola was officially commissioned. In ten minutes three flags were broken out, the watch set, the ship's clock started and the galley fires lighted. The Navy Department with one eye cocked on the London conference took this occasion to remark: "Events of recent years have proved only too clearly that a keel laid is not necessarily...
Next morning he was a little better. President Hoover called, spent ten quiet minutes, came out to remark: "I found Mr. Taft sitting up and very cheerful." Ahead of the onetime President lay, at best, long passive weeks of enforced rest...
...have been amazed at the number of times reporters today come back to the news editor, with the casual remark: 'Can't get the facts of that story.' And then I have been amazed at the number of news editors who casually reply: 'That's another good story gone West; ah, well, see what you can get on this,' and he puts the reporter on another job. That's not newspaper reporting as I knew...
...view of the remarkable archaeological discovery of the college plates, whose reappearance was so widely and so enthusiastically welcomed, other "revivals" would not seem beyond the possibilities in connection with this interesting experiment, which, in so many ways, is but a revival of old Harvard practices. For this matter of seating in hall is of course, only one, and doubtless not the most important, of many such suggestions that might be made in this interesting field of Harvard's history. For these the fortuitous concurrence of the publication of her early records and the establishment of the new houses offers...