Word: forehandedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the big London stores officials gloomed, "trade is far below normal." The forehanded British toy trade offered numerous war toys, in sharp contrast to shortage in Germany, some remarkably expensive. Example: the Maginot Line, completely equipped, ten pounds.
"I'm just trying to be forehanded," Henry Morgenthau explained, as he made an announcement that wakened memories of 1917: the appointment of the first dollar-a-year-men of World War II. They were three bankers: able, affable Tom K. Smith, 57, of St. Louis, a distinguished veteran...
More forehanded, however, than most Southern States, which make no provision for Negroes' professional education, Missouri had provided scholarships in northern law schools for Negroes. Missouri officials offered Gaines such a scholarship. Gaines refused it, insisted on his right to be taught law in Missouri, like white folks. Last...
The whole tip of the Shantung peninsula was last week nipped off by Japanese forces. They not only completed the capture of Tsingtao (TIME, Jan. 10), but with little fighting gained control at one stroke of 11,000 square miles, their biggest haul in weeks. It was a profitless victory...
"Too Unhappy to Speak!" Japan's eccentric Samurai-Admiral had strongly advised foreigners and their diplomats to seek safety by clearing out of Nanking last week, this knightly advice constituting in the eyes of Western states just about the most brazen piece of Japanese nose-thumbing yet at international...