Word: strengtheners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made no entry into Peiping. BUT by terms of the ever useful Boxer Agreement Japan has the right to increase her legation guard at any time. At Peiping's Chienmen Railroad Station 600 stumpy little Japanese soldiers detrained from Tientsin, marched through the streets with full equipment to strengthen the guard. Very quickly it became apparent that they would not be idle. Japanese patrols spread through the native city, taking over Chinese police posts, searching houses for Chinese snipers. Before breakfast Col. Ibara, commander of the legation guard, led a squad into the house of China's best...
...life imprisonment of Thomas Mooney on charges of bombing San Francisco's 1916 Preparedness Day Parade in which ten persons were killed: a new trial on one of six untried indictments (TIME, April 3). Convict Mooney expected that acquittal would strengthen his fight for pardon...
Perhaps the writer thinks that Ghandi's role has been played out, and that new methods must be adopted to further accelerate the political movement in India. The introduction of discordant elements into the movement now will dilute its strength and directly help strengthen the British hegemony. What next in India, none dare predict with certainty. This much may be asserted, Ghandi's place in the hearts of millions in India in secure. Even his Indian opponents may well extend him the due credit for his long, painful services to his people. Anup S. Dhillon
...attempting to gouge out every possible penning due France, while she herself has coolly repudiated her own debt. Her press has maintained the same hostile, inflammatory tone of the 1870's. Very naturally, the effect of this attitude and the forms of action it has taken, has been to strengthen the extreme nationalist party on the one hand, and the extreme radical party on the other. Resentment against France has given the Nazis their strong card; and the desperate economic condition of the country, in large part brought on and prolonged by Versailles and succeeding treaties of extraction, has fostered...
Less time should be devoted to course work and more to tutorial. Fewer required courses and few course theses would strengthen the tutorial system...