Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before a threat so awful, despatches told, the entire army halted. Frantically young Chang Hsueh-liang telegraphed his father, Chang Tso-lin, to send still more potent magicians from Peking to break the curse. Soon, by special train, these gentry arrived. They advised that each soldier should break the curse against himself individually by tying a small "magic rag" to his rifle and wetting it with "enemy blood...
...regardless of whether he won or not. Fight like that takes all the incentive away. It made very little difference to him whether he won or lost. Believe me when I got into the ring with Sullivan I fought like a fool because it either would make or break me and of course Sullivan was fighting the same...
...sing much better before a German than an Austrian audience, as the latter affected him mentally." In evidence he offered Dr. Freud's analysis of his mental eddies. The judge gravely studied the report and decided that it was quite proper for Singer Gauber to break his contract and stay away from Vienna...
Lawrence of Arabia. To understand how this young Welshman has become a popular author,? one must recall (TIME, July 26) how he played a leading role in kindling the Arab revolt against Turkey during the World War, and thus furthered the defense of the Suez Canal and the break-up of the Turkish Empire...
Among other works of exceptional interest is a volume entitled "Ten Years of War and Peace", a collection of ten articles from Foreign Affairs, the Yale Review, and the American Historical Review, made by Professor A. C. Coolidge '87. Such titles as "Nationality and the New Europe" "The Break Up of the Hapsburg Empire", "Russia after Genoa and the Hague" show how extensive a view the book affords of the European field. There are also papers dealing specifically with the United States...