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...Joker. Moreover-and this sent Britons cabling home for instructions-Russia would accept payment for her wares in local currency and spend the money in the country of origin. Peking Banker Nan Han-chen, the chief Chinese delegate, was equally specific about Chinese wants. Said one Briton: "These people [the Chinese] didn't come here to shoot off hot air, but to do business." Down in the fine print was the joker: the West must end its embargo against the Soviet bloc, and especially against Red China...
...alleged U.S. germ warfare to Nazi exterminations, then listed friends he had lost in Nazi camps. Monsen rose quietly, said he learned about Nazi camps from several years spent in them and that he had also lost friends, "not only in Nazi camps but in camps of different origin." Ehrenburg sat down...
...control group served as a yard stick against which the delinquests could be measured. Delinquents are often termed "deviates", but it is necessary to know what they deviate from. Otherwise a seemingly abnormal trait which may be seized upon as a dramatic explanation of the origin of delinquency may be present in like manner among non-deltaquents and therefore when regarding cause and effect, must be considered neutral...
...professors with outstanding careers who have passed the retirement age, but still have much to contribute to their field of learning. Albert Guerard, former professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and father of professor Albert Guerard, Jr., conducted a seminar titled "A Century of French Culture," and "The Origin of American Political Institutions and Ideas," was led by Charles H. McIlwain...
...their disciples. Adams reveals himself as one of the greatest conservatives who ever helped to make a revolution. Sample dialogue between Adams and Mary Wollstonecraft, mother-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an ardent feminist, and author of an urgent work entitled Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution...