Word: needful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months to come. The controversy as it started was over the question of "How much power and jurisdiction has a dean of men (or of women) over the students' most intimate personal affairs?" And this of course carried with it the implication: "How much power do the deans actually need under the American system of education...
...polite Japanese conversation one or more of the three classic epigrams bobs up whenever there is need to deal with stubbornness of any kind. The epigrams were originally coined to describe three great Japanese generals, the first a violent and impetuous general; the second, persuasive and adroit; the third, cautious and patient-and all three successful in their campaigns...
Frenchman Mauny also took occasion to say: "The masses, however, do not seem to have too much need for art?in their old forms, at any rate. Perhaps the rhythm of their life is too brutal. Perhaps the American woman, a perfect living masterpiece, dispenses all the beauty needed for the country...
...long as the Germans control great chemical institutions in which the world of tomorrow is being formed, they can sit back and smile at such things as the London Naval Conference, for if Germany has chemical control of the world . . . she need fear no one. . . . It is because of all this . . . that the American people have a right to know of any such operation as that accomplished here in New York in the financing of a subsidiary of the German chemical cartel...
...Indians. When Dyott arranged with Aloique to be taken to the scene of Fawcett's death, Aloique promised, then one night disappeared. News of the white men spread. Indians swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began to look as if the Dyott expedition too would some day need a search party. Then Dyott, after telling the Indians they would give presents next day, then start upstream, escaped with his party in the middle of the night, paddled downstream for 14 hours, got away. Says Explorer Dyott: "That Colonel Fawcett and his companions perished at the hands of hostile...