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Brooks Emeny, president of the Cleveland Council who has helped carry out Newton D. Baker's dream of turning Cleveland's famed civic spirit to foreign affairs, presided at the Institute's sessions. The topic of the speeches was a twofold question...
...trouble was twofold: they had neither chosen too wisely nor performed too well. Playing Chekhov in another language must always discolor him a little; and to offer U.S. audiences a perceptibly British version of Chekhov is to discolor him further. Moreover, the reserved and chin-up British are not entirely at home with the soul and the samovar...
...been apparent to us in both Europe and in the Philippines that American soldiers abroad have misunderstood on every possible occasion the people they have known so slightly. The education of students abroad, with its advantage of personal contacts, would have a twofold value: the broadening of the individual student's viewpoint, and his ability. . . to erase a few of (his countrymen's) misconceptions concerning foreigners...
These problems were twofold: 1) internal political disunity (the Chinese Communists) and reform (at Chungking); 2) China's relations with Russia. The two problems were organically connected by many visible and invisible layers of ragged political nerves and morbid social tissue...
...veterans of Guadalcanal are still with the ist. Their casualties have equalled almost an entire division. Last week the ist was taking more casualties on Okinawa, 3,350 miles from Henderson Field, only 960 miles from Tokyo. It still had the same twofold mission-take the objective, kill the Japs...