Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute of International Education through its Director, Dr. S. P. Duggan, has turned over the management of all international debating in which the United States has participant teams to the Federation. The Institute has, in previous years, made all arrangements in this country for the debating tours of various foreign teams, especially the English groups, and has developed this function up to the point where it is entirely self-supporting. This year it has chosen to turn the project over to the students. Negotiations have been completed so that in the future the N. S. F. A. will...
Commentators observed that no matter what the nature of the new building may turn out to be, it will resemble all other U. S. legations to the extent of having for its telegraphic and cable address the code word "Amlegation." Citizens of the U. S. who rove abroad would do well to remember also that in capitals where the U. S. is represented by an Ambassador his address is "Amembassy," plus, of course, the name of the city where the Embassy is located...
...that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto...
...steep stairs and round the drafty rooms of Dürer's tall house near the Castle Nuremberg. They viewed a great, commemorative collection of his works, and marveled how, at a patron's whim, he could crowd a mighty canvas with all imaginable detail or turn to portray with simple, moving perfection two Praying Hands...
...frank, alert and quizzical air is characteristic of the young U. S. Minister to China, John Van Antwerp MacMurray. Last week he entered Peking amid circumstances sufficiently triumphal to have made a lesser diplomat turn smug. During the past month he has been "down South" in Shanghai, negotiating with the Nanking Nationalist Government a settlement of the claims of U. S. citizens arising out of the "Nanking Outrage" of last year (TIME, April 4), when much U. S. property was looted by Chinese and one U. S. citizen killed. That Minister MacMurray had successfully concluded these negotiations became known recently...