Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge from the cries of the politicos the Filipinos are downtrodden and all but enslaved by the brutal and rapacious Uncle Sam. The facts are that they enjoy as much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the Philippines are Americans. These have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned...
...desert rat prepares and does his little best, with thorns and cactus. If he were President of the United States, he would build flying machines and make this nation independent of the flying rattlesnakes of Europe and Asia...
...most people know that minding your own business is one of the basic elements of courtesy. Asia, most people know that such attacks as Harvard students have made on their rivals are slightly tinged with green: that is, that they spring from envy, and hence indicate not superiority but acute consciousness of inferiority. In other words, they make Harvard look cheap, not Yale or Princeton. And on Saturday Harvard looked very cheap indeed. New York World...
...Ethnographic Survey of Asia," Professor Tazzer Semetic Museum, Anthropology...
...made them himself. At Zion City, Ill., he got John Alexander Bowie's disciples to make lace for him. To the Virginia-North Carolina boundary he brought mountaineers to weave cotton and woolen fabrics in mills he built. His buyers bought at first hand in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Americas. In effect, he created a "vertical" business for his company by controlling raw material, manufacture and sale. No other retail business has done this so thoroughly and so successfully. Marshall Field & Co. (the name was adopted in 1881) now can call itself, "The most complete...