Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken into the international city, and they were allowed this refuge by the great powers as fast as they could be disarmed. The Japanese especially welcomed these defeated troops and put some 2,000 on a Japanese transport, late in the week, for transport back to Shantung where they belong. ¶ Looting by individual soldiers of both factions in the Chinese city went on unchecked for 36 hours, and was carried to such extremes that many Chinese men and women roamed the streets disconsolate, stripped. ¶ Comparative order was restored on the arrival of the Nationalist General Pai Tsung...
...blue and sometimes the golden front cover of the distinguished Magazine of Wall Street, there often appears the signature of its editor and publisher-C. G. Wyckoff. Manhattanites were surprised last week upon learning that this name does not belong to a brother, cousin, nephew, uncle or any other blood relation of Richard D. Wyckoff, the financial writer who founded the magazine in 1907. The name is that of his wife- Cecelia Gertrude (Shere) Wyckoff. The secret came out with news that Mr. Wyckoff had sold to Mrs. Wyckoff for $500,000 his minority holding in the publication, which...
...host. The members of the expedition will often stay in private homes and thus be in a position to be a members of a real foreign family. The students who arrange the program in each country are activated by patriotic motive and an interest in foreign peoles which belong to their educational tradition. The Tours will take three months and by spending a considerable time in one country the traveler will get beneath the surface over which tourists usually skim. In visiting additionally a country of similar, and one of different culture, he will be verifying his general impressions...
...natural one and a descriptive one. The best place names in cities are the natural ones. . . . We cite the Lake Shore drive, Broadway, the Boston Common. These names are right. They do not offend by disproportion. They come naturally to the tongue. They have character. They belong to the thing. Why strain for a better name when the Outer drive is so certain the right...
Principal Frank L. Morse of Harrison Technical High School, Chicago, took his seat on the platform for graduating exercises last week with the air of a man who has just asserted himself. He eyed the graduating class with satisfaction. There was no pupil there who did not belong. Principal Morse faced the gathering of parents and friends, and prepared to begin the ceremonies...