Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Certainly these 14 clean-cut words ought to come in handy when Mohammed Pasha tries to get the treaty ratified by a to-be-elected Egyptian Parliament. The only thing wrong?or even peculiar?about Article I is the interpretation placed upon it by Articles...
...thrashed out between Soong and Chiang, the banker's principal grievance had to do with the conqueror's reluctance to cut down Nanking's stupendous military forces. Today Nationalist China has the largest standing army in the world, though by no means the most effective. A rabble nearly 1,500,000 strong are the soldiers of Nationalism, nondescript, ill-drilled, often ragged. Some of their commanders are hired bandit chieftains, others are feudal "War Lords" left over from previous regimes. The cream are spruce, young, "intellectual" Nationalist generals. But the whole motley gang have costly appetites...
Recently the leading Nationalist commanders were summoned to a "Disbandment Conference;" reached tentative agreement to cut the military establishment from 1,500,000 to 800,000 men. Last week however, Banker Soong charged that the militarists were making just as heavy demands on the Finance Ministry as ever. They would not consent, he declared, to abide by any fixed budget. He had offered to provide them with $6,500,000 per month, but they would not budget even on that generous basis. For a Soong and a banker there was only one alternative. In his long, closely reasoned letter...
...Santa Cruz, Calif., one Amandus J. Paulsen, paralysed in legs and hands, cut his throat, lay in a tub full of water, turned on the gas. He was found and taken to a hospital, awoke to find he had recovered from his paralysis...
...Sorger of Longview, equipped with spikes and a circling rope, squirreled up a 120-ft. fir tree, cut out the top, descended, all in 4 min. 5 sec. Among his prizes was a Paul Bunyan doughnut, one foot in diameter...