Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should resign and Vice-President Garner should become President, I am convinced that confidence would be restored throughout the nation in less than 30 days...
...interior of China came a cry from an agent of the League of Nations sent there last autumn when a Chinese plague of cholera threatened the world (TIME, Oct. 25). As cholera subsided, typhus rose, wrung from League Sanitarian Herman H. Mooser a warning: "The danger is imminent. Refugees throughout Central China are simply filthy with typhus-carrying lice. All the Chinese soldiers in the Lung-hai area (see p. 17) are lousy. There are no Chinese delousing stations, and we are half crazy trying to get co-operation from Chinese military and civilian officials. Members of my mission...
...Throughout The Sea Gull sounds a deeper note also, telling of human growth and decline. The shallow Trigorin and the histrionic Irina end up playing lotto. But Nina grows, as one superb device reveals: in Act I, performing in a play of Constantine's she speaks his highfalutin but charged lines mechanically; in Act IV she repeats them, makes them live. It is in delimiting his characters without disfiguring them, in acknowledging their souls but questioning their perspective that Chekhov gives to The Sea Gull a kind of ember like glow...
...rebel Church. When a handful of loyal members of the church brought suit to determine who really owned the building, the status of Collingswood Church was that of a congregation which had defied its parent body but belonged to no other organized group. And t070-odd congregations throughout the U. S. which had left the big Presbyterian Church to join the rebels, the Collingswood suit was a preview of what might happen to them. Collingswood lost, simply because Vice Chancellor Davis read what law said on the matter, and declared that Presbyterian doctrinal disputes had nothing to do with...
...This country has the best, the most extensive, the most widely used and the cheapest telephone service in the world. In spite of this, it would appear that fault has been found with almost everything this company has done throughout its existence. This just does not make sense...