Word: blows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quietly jubilating, British and Japanese businessmen in Shanghai spoke last week of "the most severe blow to American business prestige in China since the founding of the International Settlement in 1843." They were referring to the fact that in Shanghai's U. S. Court grave, tee- totaling, confidence-inspiring U. S. insurance, banking & real estate Tycoon Frank Jay Raven, founder of the famed "Raven Interests," which once boasted assets of $70,000,000 (TIME, June 17), had just been convicted of embezzlement on seven counts and sentenced to five years in prison at McNeil Island, Wash...
...have sailed together before. They need a few additional subscribing shipmates." Subscription for a six-month cruise in the poop of a Chinese junk: $3,000 in advance. Not quite so mad as it sounded was the Ning Po Junk expedition. It was a bitter blow to the proud 18th Century shipbuilders of Britain and the U. S. to discover that the cliff-sided, lattice-sailed junks of China could outride a typhoon that would dismast a frigate. A Chinese junk, for all its uncouth lines, is one of the most seaworthy ships ever built. Most of them are also...
...When the Moon conjuncts Uranus, that signifies an assassination or attempt at assassination. The Moon strikes the blow, and the presence of Uranus indicates firearms. Uranus governs everything mechanical. Astrology is a perpetual progression. The Egyptians based their predictions upon experience and observation; why shouldn't we do more? Therefore, immediately upon my return to Paris in September I went to see Louis Barthou, with whom I was especially well acquainted, as M. Barthou was an ardent Hugophile and I had been presented to him by Gustave Simon, Hugo's testamentary executor. So our ideas on literature coincided...
...blow through here; the music goes 'round and around...
...phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow in here and it comes out there...