Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battles. Most important of the Chinese engagements, last week, were two serious clashes near Yangchow. Northern troops commanded by Sun Chuan-fang, recent ly driven from Shanghai (TIME, March 7), turned back upon the, Southern Nationalists who had been pursuing them, dealt two heavy blows, and recaptured "Yangchow. Though the number of troops involved was not great, this was the first action in which the Nationalists have suffered a definite defeat since they left Canton on their great campaign which has resulted in the capture of all China South of the Yangtze...
...record high averages at which certain groups of securities sold. Although there are 1,100 security issues listed for trading on this exchange, it is rare that more than one-half are traded in during any one day. Yet in one vigorous five-hour session last week, brokers dealt with 651 separate issues-the record. The previous record was 649 stocks on March 3, 1926. Of less importance was the fact that 2,607,170 shares changed hands in one session-no record. (The greatest number of shares ever handled in one session was 3,786,111 shares on March...
...English open to under-graduates may be divided into seven groups, dealing with writing, public speaking and the study of language and literature. English literature is understood as including all literature written in the English language, American literature as well as British. The former is more or less dealt with in some of the courses on British literature, and various courses are given specifically on American authors and literary history...
...priest could use the altered prayers, if he pleased and his congregation consented; but a bishop could not enforce the use of the new version. For convenience and to avoid controversy the old prayers were printed intact, with the modified ones alongside. And lastly, the majority of the changes dealt with non-controversial subjects and the bishops had approved most of them unanimously...
Taken together, these reforms are a significant commentary upon Professor Bliss Perry's conduct of English A during the short period that he has dealt with the difficult problem of Freshman English. Just as the first innovation will limit the membership of this course to those who have failed to obtain a mastery over simple English expressions in school, so the second will transform its conduct, so far as it appears possible within the narrow limits of its field, into a course which will have a more justifiable place on a college curriculum than it has had in the past...