Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon-Mussolini talks, Italy's Chamber of Deputies was treated to a stirring speech by Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vascello, rapporteur of Italy's Naval budget. Crediting Italy with a 12% reduction of her naval expenditures for the coming year, the Marquis cried: "Elsewhere the vision of peace for which the world clamors is receding. . . . During the useless [Disarmament Conference] discussions at Geneva, the three major naval powers [U. S., Britain and Japan] worked to add new vessels to their fleets. . . . Japan today invades China. Inspired by race hatred she will plan tomorrow against white men. We face...
...Oxenham believes himself to be the world's first blind golfer. He is mistaken A Canadian newsman nameo Harris Turner, also blinded in the War, has been golfing for eleven years. Most famed player lacking perfect vision is one-eyed Tommy Armour, another War victim, who won British and U. S. Open championships. A close match might be played between Dr Oxenham and Thomas Mc-Aulitfe, Buffalo, N. Y. newshawk who has no arms. He clinches his club between cheek and shoulder, scores in the high...
...previous Living Buddha. The child who touched a relic became the Dalai Lama. But no such method was used when, half a century ago, a Dalai Lama died. Instead, the abbot of the Golden Monastery picked a new one merely by beholding, in a chill Tibetan lake, a vision of the birthplace, parents and person of the child Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. Taking office in 1893, this Dalai Lama distinguished himself in other ways. Previously all his predecessors in modern times had died mysteriously before reaching majority-a fact not surprising since a common figure in Tibet...
...spite of the fact that the quieter side of life seems neglected in favor of the more progressive angles, this collection of articles is indeed extremely enjoyable and of interest in that it presents America through eyes which heretofore have seldom had a chance of vision...
...council meeting of the Economics department has omanated the idea that the tutorial system is a proper object for whittling by budgetary axes. That this idea is shared, and it is obviously shared, by high university officials is not inexplicable. With its vision beclouded by reverence for the course system, by the stirring arguments of those present whose sustenance depends upon that system, and by the timidly which abounds in an atmosphere of traditional conservatism, University Hall has seen fit to treat the tutorial system as altogether subordinate to the old order, to make it fill in the gaps...