Word: saxonism
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...Education, reveals that the number of foreign students studying in this country has more than doubled during the past ten years. The great influx of foreign students which commenced shortly after the World War has been most marked by the doubling of the numbers from the countries of Anglo-Saxon civilization...
Italy, together with Germany and France, sends the largest numbers to America. Canada sends 1200 of the 1700 students from Anglo-Saxon lands. China is the great donor of Eastern students, and sends about 1250 of them to this country every year. The figures from China have varied very little while the changes in ratio were taking place in the other nations...
...Emperor Claudius wrote a book on the Roman form of the game. Domitian was an adept and Caligula a cheat. Its English name comes from the Saxon baec (back) and gamen (game)-a game in which the draughtsmen are liable to be sent back. For a long time it has been played on sidewalk tables in European restaurants, on steamers, in school common rooms, and in nurseries. In the U. S. it has gained new favor in the last year. Its vogue came mysteriously, quickly: boards, once relatively easy to get, came to be in such demand that...
...contemporary Asia, certainly the one closest in tune with Asians), and C. F. Andrews, an Englishman who used to be St. Gandhi's secretary. In the daily press, taboo keeps Gandhi to the fore as a sort of quaint fool with spinning wheel, who for no good Anglo-Saxon reason is followed with blind fanaticism by gibbering millions. The wheel (every one of the saint's followers and he himself must spin at least 6,000 ft. of cotton thread per month, 200 ft. per day) is indeed a strange weapon...
...mere butting against a wall, but it is also the symbol of Statesman Gandhi's political program of "non-cooperation." The man is in fact a triple personality: Saint, Anti-Machinist, Statesman. He insists upon mixing up Religion, Economics and Politics into something before which the Anglo-Saxon stands puzzled and aghast, unwilling and unable to give it an English name. If Englishmen were Germans they would call what Mr. Gandhi is driving at "recpolism" (R?eligion, EC?onomics, Pol?itics...