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...that a prominent preacher in this city [Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick] if he is correctly reported, preaching to a body of [Smith College] students, scoffed at the idea of 'trying to send a new generation into the world with a definite code of "right and wrong" ' and told those young people that the old ideas of 'right' and 'wrong' have been dropped and that the criterion of behavior is simply what we happen to regard as 'beautiful' and 'ugly'- which means, I suppose, that there is no longer...
When we are under that strict code...
...inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray was looking out for troops to defend the Legation from possible captors of Peking. Late in the week he seemed to be getting the troops he sought. Marine Commander-in-China...
...active and less sedentary. He may enter some trade or engage in agricultural work, if he is financially able, he may roam the seven seas. But rarely does he commit himself to the vegetation which was his wont. He appears to have reached the conclusion that there is no code which forbids him adding to his stock of knowledge in any other time besides winter. By travel, manual labor, diverse means, he can both busy himself and learn. Education is restricted neither to the classroom, nor the nine hibernal months, and the summer is assuming the position of a laboratory...
...prevent somersaulting, does not connote disaster though fliers are sometimes obliged to "pancake" when damage to their controls or weather and ground conditions make other tactics impossible. šThe original marine distress signal was "C Q D" ("Come Quick Danger"). This was replaced by the simplest and most unmistakable code letters "S O S " (. . . . - - - . .). To these three letters unofficial meanings have been fitted without number: "Save Our Ship," "Send Out Ships," "Save Our Souls," "Sink Or Swim...