Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort of a Thisbe this was who had charmed their Pyramis. The secret of her success seemed compressed into the following grave statement by Miss Claire (in an "interview" where she was discussing Mistresses Nell Gwyn, Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton et...
Daring, farsighted, iron-willed Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin last week unfolded yet another phase of his famed Five-Year Program (TIME, Sept. 9 et ante), designed to make Red Russia economically independent of the rest of the world by 1933. Today the Soviet Union grows in Russian Turkestan 50% of the cotton it consumes, imports the rest from the U. S. and Egypt. How much more cotton can Turkestan be made to yield? For weeks the Soviet Supreme Economic Council has been thrashing out that question with a sagacious and experienced U. S. citizen, Engineer Arthur Powell Davis...
...statesmen was understandable. Doubtless they had reminded Dr. Streeruwitz of last month's bloody clashes between Austria's two irregular armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the socialist Schutzbund, both bands of political zealots eager to seize the state by a coup d'etat (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.). Last week after observing a brief truce, Heimwehr and Schutzbund leaders were again roaring threats at each other...
Courtesy Sirs: A careful perusal of all reports of Graf Zeppelin maneuvers fails to reveal the arrangement by which U. S. sailors, soldiers, marines, hangars, et cetera are used to assist a private commercial undertaking. Will TIME testify? FRANCIS J. D 'AMANDA Rochester, X. Y. The U. S. served the Graf Zeppelin out of courtesy to a distinguished visitor; also because the U. S. Navy is an interested student of zeppelining...
...Tunney chapter says: ". . . Boxing up to this time [circa World War] had a most dreadful inheritance in the way of reputation. ... As a rule, they [prize-fighters, managers et al.] were sinister people with few scruples, vulgar and brutal to a marked degree . . . branded as outcasts . . . until the government, in 1917 . . . adopted it [boxing] as an important means for quickly fitting untrained men for rigorous soldier-life. . . . The modern boxer realizes that unless he is mentally equipped his chances for success are very slim...