Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japanese police arrested 38 of the plotters - but not Colonel Hashimoto. One month later Premier Yonai fell, Prince Konoye took over the Government, and Colonel Hashimoto was made director of the Imperial Rule Assistance Movement, central directing agency in the "new national structure." There was no reason for the fiery Colonel to withdraw his admonition: "Watch...
...rule books says that "every student is required to satisfy the instructor in each of his courses, in such a way and at such times as the instructor may determine, that he is performing the work of the course in a systematic manner." This vague proclamation doesn't help matters much. The student still doesn't know what he can and cannot do. Last year one boy attended about a quarter of the section meetings and a fifth of the lectures in a sociology course, and still ended up with a "B". Another, whose numerical average for the year...
...Professor Edward H. "Bull" Warren '95 waived his iron-bound rule that "more than 12 minutes late is absent" last week. An unidentified student walked into his Property 1 class 20 minutes late, explaining that he had just returned from a Naval Science cruise and didn't want to miss another class...
...finish a novel, two of which he spends in research (meanwhile finishing another book). He revises his books five or six times, sometimes makes 200 corrections per page, smokes more & more cotton-tufted Parliament cigarets as he gets going. When a novel is all in, so, as a rule, is Author Roberts...
...Methodist missionaries in India sent to the Viceroy last winter. Said they, quoting Will Durant: "British ownership of India has been a calamity and a crime." This manifesto obviously broke the four missionaries' pledges. But the British authorities wisely lay low, let the Methodist bishops in India (who rule 256 churches, 106,237 communicants) make the running by asking their Board of Foreign Missions in Manhattan to recall Jay Holmes Smith of Lucknow, Paul K. Keene of Mussoorie, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph T. Templin of Muttra. Missionaries Smith and Keene obediently went home. The Templins refused at first, finally returned...