Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repercussions. Leading U. S. cotton experts were in substantial agreement that: 1) Even a brief Lancashire strike would depress the market for raw cotton as British orders were curtailed. 2) Only a long Lancashire strike would boom the U. S. cotton textile trade. Reason: the British mills have reserve stocks of the type of high class cotton cloth competitively manufactured in the U. S. and can maintain their position in this class of goods for some weeks or months. 3) Germany and Japan, producers of cheapest cotton cloth, will be in a much stronger position to grab what Lancashire loses...
...date of his operation neared, indomitable M. Poincare, although suffering considerable pain, insisted on getting up each morning, made a point of dressing himself unaided, even buttoned his small feet into the high, old fashioned shoes affected by many a French elder statesman. At his age?he will be 69 this month ?M. Poincare knew that there was nothing unwonted, nothing crucial about an inflammation of the gland he was about to lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed...
...America was laughing at us because Queen Marie during her visit to the United States forgot to mention that she never paid her motoring bill. In America the Queen's photographs were used to boost toilet creams and perfumes. Even her private diary was taken from a drawer in a dressing table by an American dancing girl and published...
...play not to lose rather than to play to win, and the queen's side opening leads to intricate but not explosive posi tional play. A favorite amateur opening which begins with both players moving their king's pawns two squares ahead also seemed unlikely to be important, as even when the player with White opens with the king's pawn move, the Black player has become increasingly wary about countering with the same reply.? So most of the games will probably start on the queen's side of the board, and there will be a great many drawn...
Unusually eventful, a little saddened, was last week's opening by the death of James Rowe. Not to most jockies, trainers, nor even to many a famed sport king himself had come the fame that came to Harry Payne Whitney's 72-year-old trainer. A jockey at 16, he early won fame and money. When he knew all there was to know about horses, he became a trainer, trained for such men as the late great August Belmont, James R. Keene. finally for Mr. Whitney. "This is my last ride," said Trainer Rowe last week...