Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invasion of China has to some extent modified isolationist feeling, and public opinion is clamoring more and more for the sanctity of treaties, respect for frontiers and other amenities of international life. But while this attitude is being welded into a strong, inflexible policy, the nation would do well to forget the "Panay." We remembered the "Maine," and we remembered the "Lusitania." Our memory cost us dear...
Puppet governments are expensive, however, and it is in this respect that Japan's resources will be strained. Her puppet governments can keep their Chinese subjects quiet only by an outlay of money,--for Japanese gendarmes to maintain order, for puppet Chinese armies of soldiers who must be fed in order to keep them from banditry (a form of unemployment relief), and for public industrial works to make the conquered territory return a profit to Japan...
...Fair is a bird of a very different color from the Paris Exposition. Instead of a government-conceived, directed and subsidized essay in national propaganda, it is a privately-conceived and financed attempt by New York businessmen to drum up new trade. Inspired by the success in this respect of the Chicago A Century of Progress in 1933-34, 118 leading New Yorkers in 1935 formed New York World's Fair 1939 Inc., a nonprofit, nonstock corporation whose officers get no remuneration. New York City is crashing through with about $25,000,000, New York State with...
...fights, flights and two-dimensional characters, suggests an old-fashioned pulp magazine thriller brought up to date by a writer who knows Freud as well as all tricks of suspense. Its hero (and narrator) is a world-famous singer who has lost his voice as well as his self-respect, expresses himself in language more appropriate to a police reporter than a star of the Metropolitan...
Harvard placed three on the second team, leading all other colleges in this respect. Ted Robie, Put Williams, and Tom Motley were those chosen...