Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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China's biggest, thorniest problems lie in the famed Eastern province of Shantung. Famine stalks through groveling villages, and the towns are mostly held by a Japanese expeditionary force, similar to U. S. Marines in Nicaragua. Last week, however, there were signs that Shantung's problems will soon be mightily wrestled with by China's big, pious, go-getting Christian, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang...
...combined that they made a new material for cutting-tools. The men on one side were employed by the Carboloy Co., General Electric subsidiary; on the other by Thomas Prosser & Son, for 75 years U. S. selling agents for Krupp. Both Krupp and General Electric have independently developed similar metals. Krupp calls its widia (from wie diamant, "like diamond"); General Electric calls its carboloy...
...alternative to the present House plan scheme would be to have men of similar academic tastes live together. This would not necessarily entail an arbitrary assignment of men according to designated fields of concentration; by grouping history tutors in one House and fine arts tutors in another, for instance, these Houses could be given distinctive characters which would attract to them students inclined toward their specialties. All the men who were working in the same field would have a chance to be in frequent communication with each other, an intellectual atmosphere and intellectual discussions would, thus provided with a basis...
...asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt certain that the Republican Legislature would see to it that his district would disappear in the redivision...
...Wellesley girl hears a record played in the room next door, she buys a record of a different sort. This does not, however, prove Wellesley girls are miserly. They merely dislike to own anything similar to another's possession...