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...Today in Japan there is taking place a tremendous conflict or social forces which should be studied with great care by Americans. If your nation and mine are to play the lead in international affairs, in years to come, we must make an effort to understand each other, to thrash out our common problems. The Japanese are passionately desirous of becoming acquainted with America and Americans. Witness the number of students we are sending...
Britons and Turks were reported to be preparing for a conference in Constantinople "to thrash out the Mosul question." When the Allied differences with Turkey were patched up at Lausanne (TiME, Aug. 6) one of the problems left over for further discussions was that of Mosul. The technical argument over Mosul is: Does it belong to Iraq or to Turkey? The real trouble is much deeper than that. Mosul has become in diplomatic language a mere pseudonym for oil, because around that city are rich oil fields. Britain has a protectorate over Iraq and supports the Iraquians (Arab inhabitants...
...dynamo you will have conceived the full force of Miss [Geraldine] Farrar's personality. . . . Indeed the figure with which I started falls short of conveying the full effect of Miss Farrar's presence. ... If I had said, therefore, that the arbour concealed one of those marvelous implements that cut, thrash and sack the grain, all in a single operation, I should have come nearer the ideal description...
...Department of Agriculture set out to become lexicographer and authority in its own field. It issued a list of some 20 official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...
...more socialism than she was able to assimilate in the opinion of more than one critic, and the United States has taken socialistic pills so heavily coated with conservative sugar that their effect has been negligible. It is left for Great Britain to face the question squarely and to thrash out the merits and demerits of socialism in Parliament through a resolution introduced in the House of Commons by Philip Snowden Socialist, calling for government purchase, ownership, and management of all industries...