Word: entered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Lowden made ready to enter Kansas City in advance of the "crusade" of farmers promised by his friends (see p. 13). The farmers and their insistence were his only hope, for without them-there would be no party plank implicitly rebuking the present Administration for its farm-relief record, and without such a plank Candidate Lowden has said he would not take the nomination...
...spread still further northward from Peking into Manchuria, now teeming with little brown colonists from the neighboring Islands of Japan. Therefore the Japanese General Staff, although exceedingly friendly to Chang Tso-lin, recently gave warning (TIME, May 28) that neither he nor any other Chinese would be permitted to enter Manchuria for purposes of active warfare...
...human lungs with every breath. The dust varies according to the stone, but wherever there is quartz, flint, ganister, sandstone, granite, there silica particles lead all the rest. These tiny glasslike fragments do not dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock...
...famed for many miles about Nyack, N. Y. as the lady who lives in a glass house surrounded by a high wire fence and never eats meat. Late one night last week, firemen answered an alarm at Mrs. Leigh's home. Reaching the wire fence they could not enter. Politely they phoned credentials (by a telephone at the outer gate); firmly they insisted that they were authentic firemen; were at length given entrance. Mrs. Ward Leigh they found seated before a large sirloin steak. Querulously she told them not to break the glass of her house while extinguishing...
Spectacular was the despatch from Detroit which the New York Herald Tribune printed: "Another report current in the financial districts is that the present move is only part of a larger plan whereby, when the present deal is completed, Chrysler will enter the General Motors Corporation through an exchange of one share of General Motors common for two shares of Chrysler and that Walter P. Chrysler will become president of General Motors." That may be set down as improbable...