Word: blandest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese. Army jerking the strings, last week hurled fast-moving military detachments into Inner Mongolia and seized its capital, Pailingmiao. Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...
...National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures. The King's collection is far & away the biggest and finest collection of Leonardo drawings now known to man. In his first volume of notes, Cataloger Clark makes it tell much of great Leonardo, one of the brightest, blandest and most mysterious men who ever lived. The second volume is given over to 614 Leonardo drawings...
...between midnight and nine o'clock through a slot in a side door of the building. Both these reforms, coming in the prime of the academic year, call to mind once more the disheartening state of affairs in the main library of the University, and suggest to even the blandest observer a number of desirable changes...