Word: respective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect, however, the committee is far too conservative. It recommends a new general science course for students concentrating in English. Why stop there? Those students whose academic interests are primarily literary have been showered with favors--general examinations and tutors among others--while undergraduate scientists have received nothing...
Lastly, Lord Reading has upheld that sharp yet intangible and often irrationally wielded sword: "British Justice." His crowning achievement in this respect was, of course, to force the abdication of the Maharaja of Indore (TIME, March 8) because that potentate had mistreated a dancing girl who, according to Indian tradition, was indisputably his to do with as he pleased...
...rest of the number is given to "belles lettres": to verse, short tales, editorials, and book notices. In the best of these one seems to observe a healthy respect for the great virtue of literary economy. It looks as if the young American writers were inclined to teach it hereafter to your formidable Press; at least so it may be hoped. There are two neat short stories, one of which, called "The First of the Month," precedes, by way of hors d'oeuvres, that solid repast, the 'Report'; the second, also neat, and more difficult in theme, is "Musk...
...French and Russian statesmen of that time, as revealed by the disclosure of their secret agreements and dispatches, were three in number. These were the most important features of their more general imperialistic policy. The first was the manipulation of the Balkan situation to satisfy Russia's aims with respect to the Bosphorus, and to furnish a pretext for a general war when they found the time ripe for one. The second of their endeavors was to involve England so thoroughly in their schemes and diplomacy that when the crucial moment came she would be unable to withdraw...
...show, entitled "1776", is in fact consistent with its title both in respect to music and dancing. All the dances conform to the old style...