Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While violent jingos in the Japanese Army have been controlling the country for years and keeping it on the verge of bankruptcy, the Japanese Navy by & large has played conservative. Worried Japanese businessmen have generally been able to count on the navy's support in efforts to moderate army extravagance and truculence toward China. It was largely the quiet influence of the navy that saw proper punishment meted out to the hysterical young army officers who last year murdered famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and captured Tokyo's magnificent Metropolitan Police Building (TIME, March...
...agency specializing in news of Germans living abroad. Of these Langen, supposed to be a close friend of No. 2 Nazi Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, was lately thrown out of Fascist Italy for promoting the Nazi cause too zealously there. According to the London Daily Herald, "the principal count against Langen was that he intimidated his fellow countrymen to use them as informers...
Vacationing in France, Count Damien de Martel, High Commissioner for Syria, heard the news, shrugged his shoulders philosophically, prepared to return to his nerve-racking...
...naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count the seven buttons on each of their shoes, told them the shoes together had 13 buttons, then waited to be rebutted. He started on algebra when Daughter Nor was 12, changing schools, and terrified of the subject. Father Scott took her out in a canoe and brushed...
...about the possibilities of an annulment. He snorted: "She can't learn nothin' in school and she can't learn nothin' at home. I tried to learn her at home, but she don't even know her ABC's. She can't count to 25 and she don't know the day of the month or week...