Word: cut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third, the effect of this situation was that if War Lord Chang had fought a last engagement at Peking, suffered defeat, and then retired still fighting and chased by the Nationalists toward Manchuria, he would have found his retreat cut off by the Japanese...
...Southern Cross planned to do something that no man had ever before attempted: a 3,138-mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...
Protestants, however, soon cut the Apocrypha out of their Bibles, retaining only one little bit, the "Song of the Three Children," in the prayer book of sects which have prayer books. Recently, a U. S. court admitted tax-free a cargo of Douai Bibles. These, however, included the Apocryphal book which Mr. MacVeagh had imported separately. The court's ruling made it clear that for legal purposes the Apocrypha is part of the Bible only when it is bound with the other universally recognized books...
...superintendent, a general manager. When William Crapo Durant was first ousted from General Motors control (1911; again 1920) and Charles W. Nash (now chairman of Nash Motors) became General Motors president, Engineer Chrysler became Buick's general manager. He developed the steel body for Buicks; increased the output, cut production costs...
...late James Cox Brady of Manhattan was Maxwell's chief financier. He wanted Mr. Chrysler's production genius. Mr. Chrysler wanted to head a great motor company of his own name. He went to impoverished Maxwell ; cut down its debts ; and in 1925, as controller of the new Chrysler Corp., absorbed Maxwell. Mr. Brady became a Chrysler director; and Jules S. Bache, who heads one of the world's largest stock market brokerage houses. And when James Cox Brady died last November, his brother Nicholas Frederic Brady took over his directorate in the Chrysler Corp. and also...