Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo has always tried to avoid costly positional battles with the overpowering, mechanized Japanese forces. At the same time his military advisers have scorned the opposite strategy, guerrilla warfare, as tactics fit only for the Eighth Route (former Communist) Army fighters. Neutral observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...
...past two months Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin, rabble-rousing radio priest, has published the Protocols in his weekly Social Justice. Brushing aside the matter of their authenticity, Father Coughlin repeatedly stressed their "factuality," quoted Henry Ford (a onetime believer in the Protocols) : "They fit in with what is going on." Father Coughlin's point, buttered with many a some-of-my-best- friends-are-Jews disclaimer of antiSemitism, has been that Jews are to blame for Communism, that the aims of the Protocols closely resemble those of Communism-and of the New Deal, the C. I. O., numerous other...
...first bow to a U. S. audience. Few of the Philharmonic-Symphony concertgoers in Manhattan's weather-beaten Carnegie Hall had ever heard of him. But before he was even half way through Vieuxtemps' rhetorical D Minor Concerto, the Philharmonic's audience was shouting and stamping fit to bust the buttons off its stuffed shirts. When it was over, self-possessed little Violinist Virovai was given a terrific hand. Critics straightway placed him in the front rank of present-day fiddlers, acclaimed his appearance as one of the most exciting debuts ever heard in Carnegie Hall...
Chrysler. The six-cylinder Royal has been stepped up to 100 h. p., its price to $1,010. The Imperial eights ($1,198) have a new 135-h. p. motor. A "super-finish" on moving parts makes them fit to 2/1,000,000 in. Standard on the Custom job, extra on the others is the "Cruise and Climb" overdrive. Standard on all is a speedometer that sheds an approving green glow up to 30, an amber light through the 30s and 40s, a warning red over...
...thirty-four years old at the time of his death in 1934, Sharpe had already achieved an international reputation for his original contributions to the art of stage designing. In his dramatic settings, he has combined vivid coloring with striking creative imagination. He consciously strives to make the surroundings fit the mood of the play. The settings, costumes, and lighting synchronize like the different themes in a piece of music. The artist endeavors to weave an intricate pattern of emotional stimulus, accompanying, but never over-shadowing, the central dramatic action...