Word: cablese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The living quarters of the house are several feet above the ground giving it, the appearance of a bushy tree. The structure is hexagonal in shape, suspended from a central tower by cables. The inventor uses for the main theory of his work the principle that triangles and hexagons are...
On successive days no small divergence in interpreting events at Geneva widened between correspondents on the spot and the press officials of the U. S. State Department. The former developed a pessimistic and the latter an optimistic view of chances that the Powers would agree to reduction of armaments. "Mischievous...
If Chairman Young did thus actually obtain the agreement of Dr. Schacht to the minimum figure of $8,800,000,000, he performed a major feat. So sanguine seemed the delegates of results to follow that they determined to meet hereafter on Sundays as well as week days in an...
Eagerly U. S. editors once played up cables from Imperial Austria, hinted daringly the senile eccentricities of Kaiser Franz, frankly glorified U. S. maidens privileged to be presented at his Court, and got out screaming extras when the suspicious, hidebound old Emperor was finally tricked into taking his first automobile...
Escalade. By dead of night Marshal Chang Tsung-chang-captor of Chefoo, where the hair nets come from (TIME, April 8)-sallied forth last week to capture the walled city of Ninghaichow by the medieval method of a stealthy escalade. Not to be caught napping, however, was the defending Nationalist...