Word: revoltings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revolt against the growing use of the Morse code in literature is not, then, prompted by a feeling that the public is being cheated of worth-while sentiment. The English students objected (if they seriously objected at all) to the sloppy writing which permits a few dots to replace vivid language. Effective as the imagination may be the pantomime of snapping one's fingers can hardly rival a few hearty words in expressing vigorous emotion of any sort...
...first squadron of the Chinese navy-one cruiser and four gunboats -declared its independence of the Peking Government and called upon the entire navy to join in revolt. A report that the mutineers allied themselves to the anti-Peking forces headed by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, lends credence to the belief that Dr. Sun, while, as he himself stated, not intending to set up a South Government in opposition to Peking, is in reality aiming at the premiership of the central Government. - The Peking Administration offered Dr. Sun the position of Director General of Disbandment of Troops. The offer...
Stevraki's crime is 17 years old. In 1905 he took part in the execution of Lieutenant Peter P. Schmidt, com-mander of the Russian cruiser Otcha-kov and leader of what is generally credited as the first genuine communist revolt...
...analyzing this new movement toward faith, this era of spiritual restlessness, Dr. Fosdick brought out several factors that he considered to be the fundamental sources of modern religion. He showed that an intellectual revolt from the hard, materialistic view of the world was becoming more and more in evidence...
...claims that it gives a sense "of liberation and enlargement". Bacon's "New Atlantis" he does not call a great book; in fact, with typical obstinacy, he calls it "not a very well-imagined nor a well-written book" and then includes it among the most important ten. "The Revolt of the Heavens" is a title of mystery to most readers, yet it comes as a natural choice in such a list. We must bear with Mr. Wells, and remember that if it isn't a great book, it is at least as great as the others included here...