Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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President Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines governs his islands like the shrewd little tango dancer that he is. His jaunty administration has helped to convince many Filipinos that they have nothing to fear from the single-lidded gaze of the Japanese narrowing southward across the Philippines toward Singapore and...
Rufo Romero, 35, is the illegitimate son of a poor Filipino mother. He grew up to be a brilliant student at the University of the Philippines. Then he went to West Point, where he had the stand of 17th in the class of 1931. After graduation he married a 17...
At its latest cabinet meeting, the Phillips Brooks House Committee took action on the long-planned conference to further college social service work. March was set as the time for the meeting and a group was selected to organize the colleges for the event.
The letter also appealed for a complete embargo against Japan saying that Japanese supremacy in the Far East would necessitate a U. S. military and naval establishment in the Orient. As a further measure to prevent Japanese hegemony over China, "all aid to China" was recommended in the letter.
A difficult task in writing has faced H. H. and Margaret Harper in their attempt to construct an integrated dramatic work from the clues furnished in the correspondence of Dickens and Dora Spenlow. Twenty-one years of Dickens' life, the passing parade from poverty to success, and three romances are...