Word: spiritism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...repeat my statement of five years ago, at the time of negotiations preceding adoption of the first Dawes plan, and that is that I regard the questions to be settled by our committee to be business questions only. I hope they will be approached in that spirit and with a determination to get a constructive answer speedily...
Cried President Chiang Kai-shek, concluding the Conference: "It is gratifying to witness such a spirit of sincerity and co-operation as has been shown by those assembled in this attempt to solve the country's most vital and complicated internal question. When this conference opened, I said that the future of China depended on its success. I say now that the success of the conference depends on our fulfilling the measures we have adopted...
...wireless right back to the correspondent collect. Copyright by The New Yorker Times Company, as if anybody cared.-On board the Naphtha Launch City of Over Ten Thousand, in sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur...
...along the Bowery. "Mr. Villard needs bitterness, not expensive fun. He has had the latter all of his life. Heywood Broun needs a little iron, too. This country just now badly needs a few bitter men like William Lloyd Garrison. It stinks with a well-fed, mellow complacency, the spirit that elected Herbert Hoover...
...Henry Osborn Taylor will give the University an opportunity to hear one of her most widely read graduates. Interested primarily in the tracing of the shifting, currents of thought throughout the ages, the author of "The Medieval Mind" has the rare faculty of carrying his reader into the spirit of a bygone era without losing perspective...