Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revolutionary and saint like Dr. Sun Yatsen, who in 1911 had stirred the Chinese to overthrow the corrupt Manchu dynasty. He was just the son of a South China wine merchant, who had been trained in the Military Academy at Tokyo, and later became president of the Whampoa Military School in Canton. When Dr. Sun died in 1925, China was overrun by warlords. It took a hardheaded soldier like Chiang to command the loyalty of the Kuomintang. Hardheaded men in Chinese politics are not stubborn idealists -against odds they normally quit or sell...
...heard the news it was inconsolably angry. A vegetable vendor yelled, "The gringos killed him!" A Mexican newspaper printed dark hints which added up to charges of sabotage. The Mexican Ambassador in Washington called these accusations "imbecile." But in Mexico City a mob of students stoned a U. S. school and a cordon of police was thrown around the U. S. Embassy. And when the U. S. bomber bearing the flier's body reached the Mexican capital, that too was pelted with stones...
Tomorrow, 5,000 alumni and their families will start for Cambridge, and the anniversary classes will begin their reunions today and tomorrow, most of them at the country clubs in Greater Boston. The Harvard Law School Association will meet Tuesday morning at Langdell Hall in Cambridge; and the Harvard Dental Alumni Association will begin a two-day meeting, Tuesday, at Cloucesfer, Mass...
...time when an increasingly large share of the energies of the permanent staff is being drained off into the work of the Graduate School of Public Administration, the effectiveness of the Department is thus crippled and the needs of the undergraduate body gravely neglected...
...been joyously happy. The rebirth of nature's earth has been his rebirth too. Cupid, Puck, and Duty have fought for his attention, and he has reveled in their very battling. Once, so long ago, when he was a mewling prepster. June meant the end of another school year was near. It meant only that summer--an idyllic period of freedom and fun--approached. It meant a return to those hazy blue mountains which Vag loves...