Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between Japan and China. He made his old suggestion of a ten-mile neutral zone just south of the Wall to be closed to troops of both sides. Nakayama was cold to the /.one idea which would tie up Japan's long-range hope of cutting out of China...
Died. Albert St. John Harmsworth, 57, youngest brother of Viscount Rothermere and of the late Lord Northcliffe; in Vergez, France. Paralyzed from the waist down since an automobile accident in 1906. he had invented an electric wheelchair from which to direct his large mineral water business (Perrier) at Vergez. Lord Northcliffe once offered ?100,000 to anyone who could cure his brother, often declared: "He has more brains than all the rest of the Harmsworth family...
...agreement also would provide that no additional direct or indirect subventions should be introduced for the expansion of export industries, or discriminatory trade methods, or measures to promote dumping...
...currents until they are strong enough to turn on warning lights, ring a gong. The fog-eye can detect differences of temperature of one-fifty-thousandth of a degree Centigrade. Its theoretical effec- tiveness is the heat of a candle eight miles away. The amplifier reacts to direct electrical currents as small as one-five-billionths of an ampere or, said plump Dr. Free at the fog-eye demonstration, "about what is produced in your own pocket by carrying copper and silver money to gether." Commander Macneil, no exaggerator, believes that his fog-eye "is unquestionably the greatest single invention...
...recent magazine article, looks back fifty years to his won college career, and then deplores the passing of the good old days. Though ready enough to admit the great advances in education since then, and even the superiority in most respects of the modern college, he chooses to direct attention to the precious something which has dropped out of college life in the transition from '83 to '33. He would like to recapture "something of the old monastic spirit of college life, something of its isolation, something of its intimacy...