Word: broad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canton, for over 1,000 years the great port of South China, lies on the delta of the Pearl River, in the centre of a broad rice-growing valley. A municipal paradox, the city's wide, clean boulevards lined with modern apartments and shops run parallel with filthy, unpaved alleys, so narrow that three people cannot walk abreast, lined with squalid one-story hovels. Fully one-third of the city's 1,000,000 Chinese live on dirty, water-logged sampans, jam-packed along the river fronts...
...push along the strategic Lunghai east-west railroad, which at Chengchow connects with the Peking-Hankow line (see map). Fortnight ago, retreating Chinese turned and drove an advance column of 10,000 Japanese, under famed little Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, "Lawrence of Manchuria," into a bottleneck area between the broad Yellow River and the railway. For nine days Chinese forces, often behind providential screens of swirling yellow dust, charged at the Japanese ranks, attempted to wipe out the 10,000. Finally Japanese reinforcements forded the river from the north under artillery bombardment, helped Japan's "Lawrence" pull the cork...
Sedate Parisians strolling in the Bois one day last fortnight were startled by unfamiliar sounds: the music of ukuleles and harmonicas, wild cries of "Yipee! Yipee!" Drawn by these noises into the Bagatelle Polo Grounds, they saw about 30 young men & women in outlandish foreign dress-broad-brimmed hats and broad-legged pants, loudly checked shirts and brass-studded belts. They were riding horses and twirling ropes...
Another international banker is James Speyer, who has as broad a German accent as though he had just arrived from Frankfurt-am-Main, where Speyers have been bankers since the 18th Century. Actually he was born in Manhattan. His interest in Manhattan history is institutionalized in the Museum of the City of New York, to which he gave $450,000. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the same. Persistent at the time was a story that Mr. Rockefeller wanted to give more but Mr. Speyer preferred that no gift be bigger than his. Speyer & Co. rarely has taken part...
...advanced by the union not only of Presbyterianism but of all evangelical bodies in this country. It should take place at once." A candidate for union which is both evangelical and Catholic is the Episcopal Church. Last autumn the Episcopal General Convention invited Presbyterians to join in accepting a broad statement of faith in Jesus Christ, the Bible, the sacraments of baptism and Communion (see p. 54). Last week the Presbyterian Assembly, almost unanimously, voted acceptance. Commissions of both churches have already begun exploring tactics...