Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bandits. She does not take into account China's announced intention to send Chinese troops to restore order, but calmly states that the Japanese troops will remain in control until all banditry has ceased--a limit that must be interpreted with the recognition that banditry has existed on Chinese soil always...
...this may or may not explain the coincidence of bandits in Chientao, and the landing of troops on Chinese soil. It is possible that there is no sinister motive whatever in Japan's acts. But whether through purpose or through chance, Japan, by this last move, has gained, and seems likely to hold, the whip hand in the Far East...
...Mexico's soil seems a more fertile field for the seeds of revolution than that of any other country. Revolts and counter-revolts, executions and dictatorships, nowhere else are either so virulent or so persistent. Only through a rule of iron was Diaz able to maintain order, and at his policy of allowing foreigners to exploit Mexican resources the natives surged with discontent. The Mexican peon is like the dog in the manger; although he cannot govern himself, he will not long tolerate another's doing it; although he himself can not exploit the country's mineral wealth...
...colleges and schools it requires supervision by the authorities no less rigid than is exercised over the prize ring. Football may be a game or it may be a fight. In any event it is peculiarly a college sport and has many features that cannot be transplanted to mercenary soil. One of them is the amateur flavor of intercollegiate football--one of its very greatest assets; professionalism, not only sullies the game as a game; but injures the college branch of the sport, inasmuch as the temptation held out to college players sometimes is stronger than they can resist...
...many years the Reds, under one name or another, have been gulping at the fountain of American civilization. Fertile soil, high wages, the protection of the law--all these, together with numerous other advantages offered by America alone, have been their privilege without one jot of sacrifice on their part. And in the face of all this they continuously vomit a volley of contemptuous statements about our government. They secretly concoct plans for the overthrow of law and order. It is to be regretted that there are some ministers and editors in the country who, in spite of absolute proof...