Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy was acting for Rumania, and Rumania is anathema to all Red Russians, who consider that she stole Bessarabia from them while they were fighting the White Russians and the Allies in 1918. Worse still, the Rumanian note was an echo (by request...
...down the trail of applesauce, old-fashioned Turks saw the insidious influence of the American College for Girls penetrating to the very fundamentals of Turkish life, obtaining an ascendancy first over the Minister of Education and then over his friend and accomplice in applesauce, the Police Commissioner, finally altering even the carbohydrate menu with which Turkish officials have for centuries applied the gastronomic third degree...
...Even this mild defiance was too strong for timorous Subas Chandra Bose, leader of the delegation from Bengal. Shocked at the fiery speeches of Pandit Nehru advocating "extreme civil disobedience," he stalked from the hall; 24 other Bengali scrambled to their feet and followed...
...Even with 500 British special constables skulking outside, the 80,000 Nationalists (physically weak and mentally timid though they are) felt safe behind their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
...soothing statements by the Viceroy, and several bombings, but nothing definite. For example: Nobody was killed last week when "persons unknown" dynamited the empty dining car of the viceregal train. (In 1872 a knife was stuck into Lord Mayo, only Viceroy of India ever successfully assassinated. Moral: A bomb?even the one which successfully exploded in the very howdah of Viceroy Lord Hardinge of Penshurst in 1912?is a poor weapon...