Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptian legislature of the Assemblies Bill the bill which practically guarantees the Egyptian enemies of Britain free speech--the British government will take "such action as it sees fit." The British warships that have set sail from Malta with their destination unrevealed seem to show that Britain is anticipating serious trouble...
...almost a country within a country, the Bayou Teche country of the French who fled from Grand Pré, Canada, in 1755. They are les Acadiens. Last week, like other distinguished Frenchmen before him, Ambassador Paul Claudel went there. "Vous êtes ici parmi les Français," a serious local dignitary told him. "Nos ancêstres sont fraçais, nos sentiments sont fraçais, notre religion est fraçais." It was so surprisingly true that the good Ambassador felt himself deeply touched...
...full springtime in the South and Ambassador Claudel is a poet famed and, in the French sense, serious. It was full springtime and the poet-ambassador was finding travel restful after a winter of buzzy Washington. He had seen Florida. He was going next to Tennessee. In between came this spot of which he had heard so much and he was prepared to luxuriate...
Next day Professor Sheik Kankalouni of the University of El-Azhar, wrote passionately to an Arabic newspaper in Cairo: "The tracts of Zwemer have caused such unrest among our students that, but for the wisdom of the lecturers, the matter might have had most serious results." A like view was taken by the Ministry of Pious Foundations which demanded that officials of the U. S. Legation at Cairo should confiscate from Dr. Zwemer a permit which he has been granted to enable him to visit mosques. Pugnacious Dr. Zwemer stated that he would not give up the permit...
Donaghy, with an average of .414, and W. S. Hardie '30, with a mark of .385, are next to Burns in leading the regular nine in hitting. Early in the season, the problem of filling the third outfield position was considered one of the most serious facing Coach F. G. Mitchell, but Hardie, besides showing no weakness as a fielder, has blossomed into a first rate hitter, and is one of the heaviest sluggers on the squad. At present, Hardie is far in the lead among the extra-base hitters, with four triples...