Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of U. S. railroads are already bankrupt and others hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges alone. Said Railway Age: "Unless the series of developments now rapidly tending to bankrupt virtually the entire railway system of the U. S. is immediately arrested, the American people may suddenly awaken to a realization that government ownership and operation of railways have become almost or actually unavoidable...
...have now tentatively joined forces with the Chinese Government. Japan's Premier blandly added: "For China to dance to such a [Communist] tune and bring on trouble in the Orient is tantamount to weakening the Orient by its own hands. I earnestly hope that the Chinese race will awaken as quickly as possible to realization of its nature as an Oriental race and that it will cooperate with the Japanese, who come of the same Oriental stock. . . . Japan wants not territory but cooperation. ... If we had such designs, the entire territory of North China would have been seized...
...spite of the fact that Mrs. Love's case was now in the hands of a medical commission, in the seventh day of her self-induced stupor four newsreel cameras were set up in the jail hospital and one of the original psychiatrists had another try at awakening the prisoner. Psychiatrist Marcus stroked her forehead, tickled her mastoids, then murmured into her ear: "I'm coming in. Here I come. I'm knocking. Here I come." He turned to the cameramen. "She will awaken in less than a minute. . . . She is awake! Come, come, Helen! Speak...
...should the fine expansion of the talks stop the growth of other aids to Unionists. The Committee cannot rest after one step with a long ladder yet to go. Special effort will be needed to awaken exam reviews from the coma they entered following last year's disappointment, and many parts of the Confidential Guide will be dropped or changed. Nor must the proctors feel any less needed for advice now that their charges are given official pictures of future courses. The Union Committee's program is a happy addition to first year guidance and not a substitute...
...many Chinese generals joined. Thus the kidnappee & kidnapper sought to exercise in Chiang's village birthplace a joint moral and political leadership of China, seemingly with the intention that Chinese capitalists in the coastal cities and the more or less bureaucratic statesmen of the Government at Nanking should awaken to the "advantages" of teaming up with the potent Chinese bandit Communist armies for war with Japan...