Word: exaction
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From Chiang's point of view, however, the four ancient virtues mean even more: ch'ih, patriotism; lien, morality; i, social sense or the exact opposite of its English meaning, and li, discipline-the four cardinal virtues of any nationalistic State. Says Chiang...
James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General, who predicted that the U. S. airmail system would become self-supporting within three or four years. Until that time, said Mr. Farley, in nearly the exact words of onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, it would be the Post Office Department's policy to continue financial assistance to mail-carrying transport lines. As to new airlines, the Department's position was that it was economically unsound to finance them in competition "with the lines we are trying to build...
...Council (TIME, Sept. 17). Poland, having first held out for a permanent seat for herself if Russia got one, finally backed down. The scruples of Argentina and Portugal had been overcome. All that remained was to get quietly on paper an invitation to Russia and a Russian acceptance in exact legal forms which would be mutually acceptable to both the Soviet Union and the majority of League states issuing the invitation. Erupted at this point President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
...variety of situations, uniformly created for each child and for the same child at successive periods. What does a baby do when he is lying on his belly, on his back? How fast does he master the sitting posture, learn to creep, to crawl? What are the exact mechanics of his methods of locomotion? How well, at successive ages, can he stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures" beyond his reach? The cameras ground away, and in the Atlas every movement of hands, arms, legs, feet, heads, posteriors is described...
...might least expect it--Soviet Russia. Mr. Hopkins was speaking to his students of the great clamor recently heard in America against the disclipinary requirements of our college curricula. Much criticism has been voiced, he said, against all those subjects which call for painstaking study and mastery of exact factual data. The labor of learning foreign languages, for example, has been under fire, on the ground that it is not worth the trouble. The whole system of giving "marks" or grades has been attacked, as tending to put our students under too much competitive pressure to attain a high, scholastic...