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...respectively formal drama and classical checkers), amateurs of the Thurberesque cartoons of Twelfth-Century Toba Sojo, appreciators of verse by the formal Hitomaro, experts in flower arrangement, tea-brewing and fish-breeding. On the other hand are the assiduous, tough-minded students of Chinese culture, whence sprang the Japanese culture which is now being foisted back on China. The former are generally peace-loving, stay-at-home liberals; the latter are nationalistic fire-eaters...
...imperfectly understood by the Allies, Munich was a climax which very nearly ruined France. That France was not immediately ruined Taylor ascribes partly to a psychological change in Daladier. He volunteers a new and, he believes, authentic, story to explain that change: during the meeting at Munich, when Hitler sprang his famous trick-new demands even more severe than those the British and French had already rejected at Godesberg-Daladier completely lost his temper, stalked out of the room and slammed the door...
...time," declared Arizona's sesquipedalian Senator Ashurst. Sam Rayburn heard much of the same from his colleagues in the House, growled that "a great many of them, if there was a secret ballot, would vote to adjourn. ..." First sign that Congress' public sense of duty might prevail sprang from an even greater phenomenon: a fear among Congressmen that they were not taxing the people for Defense as heavily as the people wanted to be taxed. Testifying on a bill to broaden the Federal income-tax base, raise upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year in new taxes...
...does it appear that ether was used in any single hospital in the world to allay the agony of surgical operations prior to the demonstration by Dentist Morton at the Massachusetts General Hospital on Oct. 16, 1846. The very word "anesthesia" sprang into being some few weeks later...
Presenting the simple question to the voters, "Do you want peace or war for America?", it is intended as a barometer of popular sentiment. The Committee, which sprang originally from a West Coast maritime union, is now backed by both AFL and CIO representatives...