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...week in connection with foreign policy, Matsuoka once used of domestic-in an intuitive anticipation of the streamlined Government into which he was called fortnight ago: "Japan," he said as he assumed presidency of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway five years ago, "cannot halt its North China operations. The arrow has already left the bow ... to carry through these operations a domestic renovation is inevitable." When he re signed from the S. M. R. last year because he could not tolerate Army interference, he declared: "If they would just let a businessman run the country, I would...
...Bridge). Returning hurriedly to the Channel, their lightly armed forces (Saxon soldiers with shields and two-handed axes, peasants with javelins and stone-tipped clubs), were easy carving for the mounted, armored Normans. In October, Conqueror William won the Battle of Hastings, where King Harold was killed by an arrow in the eye. William proceeded leisurely to London, where he was crowned on Christmas...
Head machinist for the Exposition Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Ga. is a wiry, hawk-nosed little man (5 ft. 4 in.), with dark blue eyes, greasy, dexterous hands, a fourth-grade education, six grown children, a passion for hunting rabbits with bow & arrow, and some "gold needles," which are divining-rod-like devices for locating gold...
...hunt, along the "woodless prairies" beyond the Arkansas River, their venison often spoiled for lack of fuel to cook it. Indian police whipped the noisy and the neck-craners into discipline when game was near. They were skillful shots; one bullet or one arrow per bison was usually enough. Tixier predicted the extinction of the bison; the Osage killed them at random, usually left 150 Ib. of excellent meat on each carcass...
Down the homestretch they galloped, long-striding Bogskar opening more & more daylight with each stride, crossing the finish line four lengths ahead of MacMoffat, ten lengths ahead of Gold Arrow...