Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every corner of the globe much is being said about the menace of war, but little about means of averting such a catastrophe. Let the agreements which we have signed here today remind the world that there are governments which consider it their duty to work toward strengthening the peace structure. Chauvinism, nationalism and racial prejudice are foreign to the Soviet State, which does not put its ambition in conquests...
...splendid old ruin with its haul-the 17th Century hunting lodge of the old Manchu Emperors of China, spread over the hills outside Jehol City. By last week it was still overgrown with weeds but Japan planned to make it fresh and new to remind Manchukuans of the ancestral glories of their puppet Emperor Kang...
...likely to provoke controversy, for Pound has always been a stormy petrel in the arts, and both his criticism and his poetry possess an incisiveness that has been regarded by some as bellicose. One should not be misled by the man's egotism. Although he loses no opportunity to remind his readers of his special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry; by virtue of them, he has exerted a profound influence on several contemporary poets. He has managed somehow to be in the forefront...
President Roosevelt recognized this situation when he brought before Congress a lowered tariff and an increased quota for Cuba, and at the same time attempted to decrease the sugar beet production. But the howls of the Smoot coalition were not needed to remind him that the Philippine competition was the nigger in his economic woodpile...
Hanover, N.H., Feb. 14--Under the able guidance of its new coach, Herb Gill, the Dartmouth hockey team has developed into a fast, hard-checking, and high-scoring sextet which is without doubt one of the best amateur clubs in the country. The team promises to remind Dartmouth hockey followers of the time when Myles Lane captained the aggregation which made Dartmouth hockey history back in 1927. The improvement comes at a particularly welcome time, for since those days hockey in Hanover has been definitely on the down grade...