Word: anent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME (issue of Dec. 5, p. 21), probably sensing the bias that the press blunder anent nudism and cancer might cause, sought to regain the intellectual status quo by publishing the "Health Wedding'' story together with an enlightening, timely, two-column cut. In doing so, TIME scooped all conservative magazines...
...Doctrine" of unyielding nonrecognition of Manchukuo. Abruptly last week President Roosevelt moved to pin on Manchukuo an odium worse than any attaching to Russia. The President sent the State Department's assistant chief of Far Eastern Affairs, Stuart Fuller, to read a 1,700-word U. S. protest anent Manchukuo to the League of Nations' Opium Commission in Geneva. Pointedly ignoring the existence of any such state as "Manchukuo" and insisting that its territory is the rightful property of China, Mr. Fuller, while careful not to mention Japan by name, denounced the regime behind puppet Regent Henry...
...short while ago TIME OUT shocked the immortals with his gloomy outburst anent the condition of the football team. For a while it looked as if he were on the winning side but the wind was taken out of his sails in exactly five minutes. And the five minutes that turned the trick were the first five minutes of the Bates game. Ironically enough the player directly responsible for his demise was Danny Wells, the very one with whom the article dealt most vehemently...
...final fact that there is in all this much material for thought. The symposium, it should be added, leaves the material facile verbiage. Mr. Hale, alone of the three ventures into the inner recesses of the young intellectuals' cannery, and passes some crumbs from Sherwood Anderson's trencher, crumbs anent the arbitrary character of Communist literary criticism. For the rest, the Hoot is conventional and mild. Two undergraduates have collaborated on a dull catalogue of duller New Haven, and Mr. Charles Seymour writes with pale whimsy on artistry in dining. But it remains for the three reviwers to smother...
...Anent the recent discussion in TIME as to who is the post-mortem champion of the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 17), I have been waiting for someone to nominate Dr. Adolphus Berger, post-mortem surgeon for the County of San Francisco...