Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heap of habiliments viewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. He was informed that these adornments, no matter how aged were always in demand, either among the Syrians of the Near East or the Ainus of the Far East. The most presentable suits will be kept for the poverty stricken of the United States, some of them being distributed in the vieinu of Cambridge...
Decrees. Minister of Justice Rocco next arose to present the Defense Decrees. From these had been stricken the celebrated clause defying international law by providing that the Italian courts should sentence to imprisonment foreigners who spoke or wrote ill of Italy even in their own countries. As introduced last week this clause provided punishment for foreigners committing such crime only when they are in Italy...
...Russia, Belgium, stricken France lonow what war, the waster of prosperity, the harbinger of famine and pestilence, can do to plunge a nation into turmoil. Waste, extravagance, restlessness, immorality, and lawlessness are the inevitable results of war. America has felt these reactions only slightly, but all that is necessary to convince anyone of the World War's cost is to consider the statistics. Ten million men, the finest youth of the world, are dust today. Three hundred and sixty billion dollars have been squandered in the madness of strife...
...Cantonese who were only checked when Major V. K. Ting of Shanghai discovered their plot and ordered cut the railway over which they expected to receive re-enforcements. These developments, adding to the fear of an immediate onslaught by Chang Kaishek, left foreigners and Chinese alike terror-stricken in Shanghai...
...called the Catholic* Congress of the Episcopal Church, all the proceedings being made to emphasize the omission from this title of the word "Protestant", which it is the high-roaders' ambition to have stricken from the official name of their Church. Milwaukee Presbyterians had placed one of their church buildings at the Episcopalians' disposal and here Bishop William Walter Webb of Milwaukee welcomed his brethren to the diocese in which "the first attempt at a religious order for men in the English Church after the Reformation was made"; the diocese which contains some of Anglo-Catholicism...