Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Savants of Japan trace Imperial Poem Reading through 1,000 years of vicissitudes fascinating to explore. The present Emperor is the 124th in direct line and the major crises of Imperial Poem Reading may be said to have been weathered in the reigns of the 62nd, the 83rd, the 103rd and the 122nd. It was Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the present Emperor, who dealt masterfully with the insurgence of Japanese commoners when they vigorously although reverently beseeched that Imperial Poem Reading should depart from the immemorial tradition that no poems were ever read to the Son of Heaven except those...
Without doubt the most honest, sincere and unbiased criticism of the New Deal heard in this country came from the lips of ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith speaking before the Liberty League in New York Saturday night. With no trace of personal bitterness or ravings, but with fairness and in plain terms, did the nation's leading "conservative Democrat" call the administration to task for its neglected party pledges and its wanderings from the paths of constitutionality. An especial tribute to Mr. Smith's sincerity of purpose is the fact that the Liberty League, at first evidently affected...
...made by Republicans on a Democratic administration. They may have the truth of the gospels, the forces of a juggernaut and still retain the savour of partisanship. However, when a party in power is criticized by a large proportion of its own makeup; when that attack is led without trace of self-advancement or breath of bitterness by a man versed in the ways of governing, a man of unquestioned integrity, then, that attack will strike home and leave its mark...
...year hence, ten years hence, perhaps 50 years hence, some one will trace the newer methods of medicine back to this meeting, perhaps to some seemingly insignificant announcement which even during these days may escape our immediate attention, but which the future history of science will reveal as profoundly influential in the destinies of mankind...
...York Timesman Charles A. Selden who cabled from London thus: "Anybody who went to the Commons expecting to hear reproaches and recriminations between Sir Samuel Hoare on the one hand and Mr. Baldwin and other members of the Cabinet on the other was disappointed. There was not a trace of bitterness on either side. The atmosphere was so much the other way that surprised members in the lobby after Sir Samuel, Mr. Baldwin and Sir Austen Chamberlain had finished their speeches wondered if the Cabinet break had not been a sham battle or at least an arranged episode to serve...