Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English mentality and its offspring, to be used by the American in the manner of a guide book to a Zoological garden, and by the Englishman as a looking glass. He is an American journalist who has braved the agonizing spectacle of English illogical self-deception in every sphere of British activity and inactivity and has been able to write down his observations with conviction, but with complete lack of sentiment, optimism, or pessimism, as far as Britain and her Empire is concerned. He has spent eleven years in the country interpreting the English mind for readers...
...ancient race with noble traditions," cried Orator Macdermott. "Let us not behave like guttersnipes! . . . This bill is illogical, impractical and dangerous. If it passes I shall ask the Dail to take steps to remove Ireland from the sphere of the British Commonwealth...
...idle to close our eyes," said the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman, "to the fact that Soviet Russia is displeased with what has happened in North Manchuria, which is considered in the Russian sphere of influence. We can understand their disappointment at seeing their domination in North Manchuria fading permanently. We certainly have no intention of attacking Soviet Russia and do not believe they are so rash as to challenge Japan...
...Japan three weeks ago occupied Harbin, the recognized "capital" of the "Russian sphere of influence in North Manchuria" (TIME, Feb. 22). Paradoxically, although the Chinese Eastern Railway running through Harbin is under Soviet management, the city itself swarms with at least 25,000 "White Russians" (anti-Soviet). No sooner did Japanese take over Harbin than White Russian Generals Mandriken and Modestov began dickering for arms, promising to use them in a White Russian offensive to capture Vladivostok...
Harbin, the so-called "Russian Capital" of the so-called "Russian Sphere of Influence in North Manchuria" had been captured by General Jiro Tamon (TIME, Feb. 15) and that cocky little Japanese announced last week that in doing so he had caused 1,800 Chinese deaths...