Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duce Benito Mussolini has never been one to bow to mass opinion, nor is he above giving the retort discourteous to those who dare criticize his actions. Five weeks ago there were murmurs of disapproval when he jolted the entire Fascist organization with the biggest shake-up in years, deposed ministers right and left and assumed two Cabinet posts himself. The hopes of those who felt that Fascism should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries...
...rowing with the quick savage stroke that won for him in 1928, built up a two-and-a-half-length lead. Five hundred metres from the finish, Bill Miller, 26-year-old oarsman of Philadelphia, pulling with a quicker swing, began to cut down the open water between the bow of his shell and the stern of Pearce's. Miller's bow was coming up even with the waist of Pearce's shell when Pearce's bow reached the finish. Last major event of the Xth Olympiad was the final heat in the 2,000-metre...
...Pretty were a new set of postage stamps, issued for Manchoukuo last week. some bearing the portrait of Japan's Puppet Henry Pu Yi, others illustrated with Manchurian scenes. During the week Manchoukuo paper money made its first appearance. Also Japan made a bow to U. S. public opinion by appointing as an "adviser" to the Manchoukuo Government enterprising U. S. Citizen George Bronson Rea. "He is the publisher of The Far Eastern Review of Shanghai," remarked the Associated Press, "and is a stanch defender of Japan's policy in Manchuria...
...bow to precedent although it breaks my heart to break TIME'S perfect record. In the issue of July 11, p. 20, under "Sports" appears the following sentence referring to Benjamin Bangs Eastman: ''He ran in sneakers." On the cover is a dramatic picture of that event showing the latter racing in spiked track shoes...
When President Hoover learned of the compromise agreement, he summoned Speaker Garner and the conferees to the White House. At the eleventh hour he wanted the bill revised, private loans eliminated. Speaker Garner, whose own pet idea the loan provision was, told him that Congress had bowed to him on direct relief and public works, that it was up to him to bow to loans. The President refused to bow. After a two-hour wrangle, the meeting broke up inconclusively...