Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Chinwangtao, the seaside resort just below the Great Wall, to Singapore, the big British naval base at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, the coast of Eastern Asia rumbled last week with warlike activity. At Tientsin Japanese soldiers tightened their two-weeks-old blockade on the British Concession; at Chefoo and Tsingtao Japanese officials sponsored anti-British demonstrations; at Shanghai British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr was surrounded with a heavy guard after "terrorists" had threatened his life; the Japanese captured one Chinese port, closed another, attacked two more (Foochow, Wenchow); at Hong Kong British troops...
Informed by a Saturday Evening Post article that London tap water tastes like soap, but that King George & Queen Elizabeth like it anyway, Philadelphia Chemist LeRoy Drew Betz procured a sample from his London agents. Chemist Betz then duplicated its color, hardness, chemical content, using as a base distilled water from the Schuylkill, sent 25 gallons to the White House ("purely as a gesture of patriotism and a possible means of increasing the comfort of the visiting monarchs...
HARVARD--Fulton got all the way to second when Wood dropped his liner. Keyes flied to center. Healey dropped a Texas leaguer over third base. Johns and Gannett flied out. One hit, no runs, one error...
HARVARD--Johns filed out to Stevens in deep left field. Gannett best out an infield tap to Besse at third base and stole second after Grondahl had looked at a third strike. Lupien lifted a high pop foul to Besse behind third base. One hit, no runs...
Mean temperature of the Congress was well below the boiling point. Rare were such fighting words as: "Writers have no base outside the labor movement." Rare were such old battlecries as "proletarian," "class-consciousness." Delegates hurried nervously through their mainly autobiographical speeches, subsided meekly on the chairman's time-signal, as polite fellow delegates rose politely to comment. From Communists, as such, came not a sheepdog's bark...