Word: corner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bribes the loyalty of Mongolian princes in Chahar. Chahar would be important to Japan not only as a future base for the invasion of Northern China, but also as a prime point on the strategic caravan route to outer Mongolia and Russia. The brief & bloody capture of this little corner of disputed territory last week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China's Nationalist Government was resigned to the eventual loss of Chahar, probably in return for a promise that for a little while...
...Perkins called in the architects, demanded an immediate change. The bedeviled architects protested. Madam Secretary insisted. Moving day for the Department was postponed. Carpenters tore down the second door and masons replaced it with a brick wall two feet thick to protect the Secretary's privacy. Hastily a corner of the Solicitor's office was hedged off for a second bathroom for Mr. Wyzanski's private...
...rather slow about getting things done and rather naively melodramatic. The Cambridge sophisticates should get quite a bit of fun laughing at the serious sequences, of which there are one or two really priceless ones. Garbo is her usual self--some seem to like it but this corner is still convinced that the only interesting thing about her is her popularity an apparent triumph of publicity department machinations. Robert Marshal continues to be the capable English...
Besides President Conant's old home, other buildings recently added to the Committee's list of prospective locations are the Fifty-Four Club at the corner of Winthrop and Dunster Streets, and Dudley Hall. Of these, the Fifty-Four Club is not owned by the University...
...Year's statements of U. S. businessmen, the most optimistic came from Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos, whose peanut stand at the corner of the White House grounds was saved through the intervention of his good customer, Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (TIME, Jan. 29). Said Peanut Vendor Vasilakos: "Business very good. Bes' in long time. Almos' better than ever...