Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading Chinese territory show utter disregard for all the rules of international law. The law of morality gives place to violence and anarchy. . . . Civilization and the security of the world is in the balance...
Strong stuff for even a medical audience, these newsreels were, from the stand-points of both horror and history, in many respects the most remarkable ever shown. For if the utter freakishness of the new usage of fighting wars in town instead of in the country has vastly increased the peril of noncombatants, it has at the same time advanced the efficiency of news coverage of the hostilities a hundredfold. For instance: on the afternoon of Aug. 14, three Chinese bombers flew over Shanghai's Bund, accidentally or intentionally slipped two bombs out of their bomb-racks and blew...
...seems a pity that some of the American papers should print such utter nonsense about the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that so many people appear to believe it. You underline a certain passage out of the magazine called TIME which you enclosed [TIME, May 24]. In that passage, it is stated that the Archbishop dislikes most Americans. That is totally untrue. He has visited America and constantly speaks of their kindness and hospitality to him. He has also many good American friends in this Country...
...college legacies, spotted as far in advance and nursed as diligently by their beneficiaries as prep-school football stars, are equally devoid of surprise. Last week officials of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N. Y., contemplating news of a legacy whose eventual value might reach $6,000,000, professed utter amazement. Said President William Otis Hotchkiss: "All I know about it is what I read in the papers...
...that "several hundred Red Army officers and soldiers" had been overpowered by the secret police after "resisting arrest" in Vladivostok and were being shipped toward Moscow as prisoners on two trains. "The rest of the Soviet Far East army, as a result of these arrests, has been thrown into utter confusion!" crowed the Tokyo Nichi Nichi...