Word: across
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yours also ? " began Author Barrie when called upon by Major Astor, "my one desire is to be nice to Mr. Baldwin. It is not his fault that he is a Worcestershire man ? after all Shakespeare came very near being a Worcestershire man, but his mother slipped across into Warwickshire to give the boy a chance. How hard on me it is to make a speech when I know the Prime Minister would far rather I told him a detective story...
Just two months ago the young women wept and carried on, but could not dissuade doughty Marshal Chang from setting out with a shipload of adventurers to capture the Chinese city of Chefoo-just across the Yellow Sea-and thus repossess himself of the rich province of Shantung...
Possibly unchastened, but certainly cautious, the Stock Market last week edged its way back across the Four Million Shares a Day mark, succeeded in maintaining a bullish, though still rather bilious, complexion. Yet only the memory of its recent crisis, plus the still large, though lately deflated, loans to brokers, could have kept the Market from lowering its horns in another bull stampede. For of bullish portents there...
...memorable, a monumental victory. For last week Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s Managing Director, announced that his company's "British Only" stock issue had been unconditionally withdrawn. Thus the principle of financial internationalism was thoroughly vindicated; thus the U. S. financier can send his dollars across the ocean, confident that they will meet with at least a civil reception...
People have sailed, swum, flown, rowed, fought, argued their way across the English Channel (21 miles). If and when the much-bruited Channel tunnel (TIME, April 8) is built, people will be able to train-ride across or even walk. But only two men have ever pedalled across the Channel. Hydrocyclist Rene Savard,in 1927, crossed in 7 hrs. 13 min. and last week Raoul Vincent, pumping patiently at the pedals that made his paddles go, got across in "record" time...