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...Young Marshal, as his public demands indicated fortnight ago required as hls personal profit out of the transaction that China reconquer and restore to him his Empire, or equivalent. This personal demand was inextricably mixed up with the issue of Chinese national policy vis-à-vis Japan...
Curious. Their nervousness passed after the pioneer autogiro, in response to insistent invitations, vis ited every one of Iowa's 99 county seat towns (and many another) giving Iowa and lowans a new concept of aviation...
...architectural talk. For the past year he played pinochle every Sunday night with Instructor Wilson. Last week, as George Archambeau went about his dusting, he gave a proud extra flick to a new bust in the Fogg entrance hall. It was himself, modeled during pinochle evenings, now set up vis-a-vis to William Crowninshield Endicott...
...Pullman Car Hiawatha" you are supposed to imagine, with the aid of a few chairs placed vis-a-vis, the interior of a Pullman on its way from Manhattan to Chicago. The action, which starts off realistically enough, goes rapidly symbolic: Archangels Gabriel and Michael, other such un-humdrum figures appear. Of the other plays two ("Queens of France," "Love and How to Cure It") are farces; two out-realize Belasco...
...groups of serious-minded students gathered in the music room after dinner for a little Bach or Beethoven, or discussing the problems of vis major and concepts of momentum and potential energy with the head tutor over the teacups exist, happily or otherwise, only in the imaginings of the more lyrically inclined correspondents. Nor were the student apartments visited by the investigator inhabited solely by bespectacled fellows deeply immersed in theses on the newly evolved science of bio-psychology or the declension of the Coptic verbs. He was, in point of actual fact, treated to some of the most adroitly...