Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treasure in the modern world, collected for over 250 years by the Manchu Emperors. Ever since the fall of the Empire in 1911 bits of that treasure have been dribbling away, though not quite as fast as certain dealers would like collectors to believe. Six months ago when the remnant was moved from Peiping to Shanghai in fear of Japanese invasion, it occupied over 4.000 packing cases, was valued at $20,000.000 (TIME. Feb. 20). Important bits of that treasure have reached the outside world...
...Germany would be ready without further ado to dissolve its whole military establishment and destroy the scanty remnant of arms left it if neighboring nations unreservedly do the same. . . . Germany is in the main agreed to accept a transitional period of five years for the establishment of its national security, in the expectation that after this period Germany's real equalization with other nations will occur. . . . The German Government sees in the English plan a possible basis for solution of this question...
...from worldly care is the pursuit of "ecological studies on the vanishing vertebrate fauna of the tropical rain forest remnant in East Africa, with a view to elucidating the origins of certain genera only known from the Uluguru and Usambara forests, and throwing light upon the dispersal of isolated, sylvicoline forms common to the Cameroon Mountains of the west and the Usambara Mountains of the East Coast." That is what Herpetologist Arthur Loveridge of Harvard University is going to do this year, and he will get something like $2,500 for doing it. Last week he and 37 other scholars...
...national planning board would be set up to execute the program, distribute work, arrange priorities, dictate to the remnant of private business...
...Some teachers, belonging to that docile remnant terrorized by old-fashioned school boards, still believe it wicked and frivolous to consider personal adornment." ("It is ridiculous in this day and age to think of the teacher as a 'being apart.' She has just as much right as her sisters to personal adornment...