Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany's Revolution, he helped found the Democratic Club in Berlin but did not leave diplomacy for politics. The rise of Germany's new democracy sent him to Rome as first councilor of the Embassy, where his firm amiability in-clined many a Fascist to a friendlier view of German republicanism. Leaving Italy for the U. S., he rose at a banquet given him by his Roman friends to talk about the "understanding" he hoped to promote in Washington. "My house there," he said, "shall always be open to everyone...
...Douglas Haig was inflexible in believing that Britain's "new army" should not join the professional army of France in a desperate thrust "to win or lose it all." Of his attitude famed Winston Churchill, now Chancellor of the Exchequer, has written: "On questions which, in his view, involved the safety of the British armies under his command, Sir Douglas Haig-right or wrong-was, whenever necessary, ready to resign." Not until all armies neared the brink of exhaustion was the thrift of Haig vindicated by the might of his at last forged and case hardened troops. If Scotch...
...Forsyth Stockton, potent British textile merchant. His most vital point: "The recent general turning up of trousers at the bottom has opened up a very important branch of trade, since it has created a demand for the fancy sock. The modern man of taste wants his socks exposed to view and to harmonize with his trousers and the general scheme of his dress...
...view of this situation, the tutor is quite powerless to do anything but direct his student to such reading as will cover the writers left unstudied in his regular courses and coach him on the best ways of handling examination questions. Even if the tutor has a strong personal love for literature as one of the fine arts, he has not time to share his enthusiasm with those who come to him for direction, no time to arouse in them a taste for beauty, or to show that the cultivation of critical standards may help each one to find...
Referring to the outcome of the gradual industrial development of India, Mukerji held the view that in the end, neither India nor the world at large could gain. "In 50 years," said he, "foreign countries can not expect to compete with the mass production of such a large population, and as for the natives themselves, India is a tropical country; why should her people work indoors when they are healthier and happier working outdoors...