Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang as the bait and the Japanese bit, and bit hard, by advancing on the village through a corridor lined with Chinese divisions. By thus exposing their flanks the Japanese committed an inexcusable military blunder, but they had gotten away with it before and thought they could do it again. They failed to take cognizance of the new Chinese fighting spirit. The Chinese showed that they are learning to cope with Japanese superiority in offensive weapons by abandoning positional warfare in favor of mobility...
...police found nothing in the "history lesson," ignored the "Latin lesson," but discovered in the "English lesson" a disquieting thought: "If a man feels it necessary to take his own life, should he be condemned...
Both agreed that working newspapermen must organize, but that agreement did not soften Mr. Robb's criticism of the Guild's "cockeyed"' tactics. He warned the Guild it was making "slow progress" because: 1) it "gives more thought to antagonizing publishers than it doe.s toward promotion of the objects for which it was formed"; 2) it "attempts to discredit all advertising" and boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character...
Last spring, a few months out of his copyreading job on the Chicago Times, Sydney Justin Harris found $30 in his jeans, a printer willing to give him $1,000 worth of credit. Thought Sydney Harris: What Chicago needs is a liberal magazine...
...clinical sociologist" in the Menard Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Mr. Clemmer played baseball, football and other games with the convicts, talked to them sympathetically when they were sick or downcast, won their confidence. He thus learned the identity of certain leaders, their qualifications and what their followers thought of them. One trait which every leader seemed to need to keep his following was that of being "right"-i. e., of not truckling to the prison authorities. Mr. Clemmer admits that leaders are often at the bottom of "conflict situations"-riots, mass demonstrations, group escapes-but finds that...