Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...military and business man in the Orient. He told of a Chinese graduate of Yale who was cursed like a coolie by a Shanghai bank clerk; of signs in a park on Chinese soil: "No Chinamen or dogs allowed." He flayed the whites, British and U. S. alike, who commit and permit such arrogance. He roused Governor Farrington's dinner party to his own white heat of indignation and then, suddenly, blazed out: "There's beginning to be too much of that kind of thing right here...
...flyers William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee that the U. S. Navy had refused to help them, Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur last week said: "As long as I have anything to do with the Navy it will do nothing to aid and abet men to commit suicide...
...authorities to provide a new Dining Hall much their fault. Undergraduates simply do not seem to wish to return to the club table system which existed in Memorial Hall for fifty years, and to which President Lowell thinks they will return. But 180 men were willing to commit themselves to club tables in the CRIMSON questionnaire. Five hundred are needed to make a new Dining Hall financially successful...
...governments concerned, and are being kept alive for reasons of internal politics. Naturally, then M. Stalin made a great many charges last week against the British Government which seemed to most Anglo-Saxons mere balderdash. For example, Dictator Stalin declared flatly: "The British Government is financing terrorist spies who commit arson and murder throughout the Soviet Union...
...Naomi who resolves the impasse, by eloping suddenly with a sex-starved minister as far as Pittsburgh, where both commit prayerful suicide. This leaves Philip nothing to do but marry Mary and return to expiate something or other on the African postcard scene...