Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sumptuous private plane to Nanking, joined the huddle. If Tuan actually carried an offer from Japan- presumably an offer of peaceful settlement on a basis approximating the status quo-not a whisper of the terms leaked out. Meanwhile, however, the Japanese advance to occupy Jehol Province (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.) was not pushed last week. Japanese planes reconnoitered and dropped a few bombs but no battle or skirmish of importance took place...
Swarthy soldiers wearing U. S. uniforms, complete with U. S. eagle buttons, advanced from Bolivia last week to do further battle with Paraguayans in the long disputed, excessively swampy Gran Chaco (TIME, Aug. 15, et...
...March of Influenza" is what Nature calls the pandemic which, first evident in the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 12 et seq.). has spread over Europe. Between the continents it hit the Cameronia, put 500 passengers to berth, killed none. Off England last week the entire crew of a fishing smack caught the disease, but kept to sea until they exhausted their rum & quinine. French battleships Paris and Jean Bart reported most of their personnel disabled...
...Wolf Island in the Mississippi River last week trekked Denver M. Wright, frustrated St. Louis lion hunter (TIME, Oct. 17 et seq.), with two circus lions, 20 newshawks, cameramen, native beaters and his 14-year-old son Charles. For three nights the party huddled miserably inside a barbed-wire stockade while icy rain beat down. Hunter Wright waited for skies to clear, said he: "They might catch cold and die." Then the lions were released to roam the underbrush, regain their native ferocity. Instead they sat howling mournfully in the mud outside the camp. Next day an hour...
...religious world "Buchmanism," as it has conveniently been termed, is no new thing. Its beliefs and methods are well known, particularly in New York, Asheville, N. C. and Louisville, Ky., where successful meetings and house parties have been held (TIME, June 8, 1931, et seq.). Evangelizing by personal talks in friendly settings, the Groups do no preaching, emphasize personal guidance by God, confession of private...