Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whether that is after an interval of six months or six weeks or six days, neither I nor you can foretell. You also report a crime once in a while. But you do not have a weekly crime page. Apply the same criterion to fashions, from both points of view, from that of the hygiene of living and from that of beauty...
...Chinese port during the whole period of the present confused conditions along the Yangtze Valley. The firing at Nanking on March 24 by U. S. and British men-of-war consisted solely of a barrage laid about a house on a hill overlooking the city wall and in plain view from the river. In this house were the American Consul, his family, and some 25 other Americans and British, and this besieged party was being attacked and rushed by Chinese soldiers intent upon murdering them. This barrage not only saved the lives of the people in this house, who afterwards...
There was no further firing upon Nanking by men-of-war. Your statement as printed certainly presents exactly the view desired by these clever propagandists of the Chinese communists...
...today 'have traveled rather swiftly over a long road. They have left behind the doubtful humors of bathos, which are caught by only a minority of their listeners and even then in contradiction of the author's intention. From the mists of experiment may appear the author who can view life again as a stage, with perhaps some of the subtlety and detachment that has been given to a single and supremely great artist...
...tutorial assistance offered students meets with no adequate appreciation until the Senior year, when it is brought to bear on the incipient graduate with such force that he cannot help but realize its usefulness. Mere attendance on courses could hardly have equipped him for such a bird's eye view of his college career as that required by Divisional Examinations. Some binding force must have entered into his scholastic work and that force is, in by far the greater number of cases, the tutorial work which for three years has seemed to be only an additional interest and which...