Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long, weary while will it be possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present, the Nationalists ?who have just wrested China from the grip of the various bandit "war lords"? are frankly constituting themselves as a benevolent oligarchy?with the blessing and full recognition of the U. S. Government (TIME...
...full of cogent wisdom were the President's remarks, that only persons of lively imagination realized that in the precise little man before them they beheld the greatest and most romantic Conqueror of today. All of vast China has been his battlefield, and from South to North he has conquered or reduced all to submission. Geographically the arena of Marshal Chiang's triumph dwarfs to insignificance that in which was fought the Great War? for China is four times as large as the total battle areas of Europe, with the Balkans thrown in. From the standpoint of manpower and gunpower...
Medicine knows no full picture of senescence. It knows many details?what diseases are peculiar to the age, how young ailments cause old crotchets, how various body parts wear out, how the mind grows dull. Little more detail did the New York conference bring out. Of a score papers only three or four dealt with the hygiene of old age. Practically all the others dealt with specific diseases. Yet the meeting was useful in collecting scattered knowledge and in focusing medical attention...
...outstanding. A. Iselin & Co. and Roosevelt & Son, investment bankers, owned two-thirds of the stock. The par of both kinds (preferred and common) is $100. On the stock markets early last week the shares were considered worth only $80 each. The Van Sweringens offered the Iselin-Roosevelt group the full $100, and gained the purchase. B. R. & P. shares are not worth $100. But so great is general confidence in Van Sweringen financing that stock buyers at once offered $98 a share for what minority stock might reach the market...
...mono type and printer's ink than vacuum-cleaners and Patou models, Virginia Woolf ? and her husband ? set up a small hand press in 1912, and printed limited editions of choice books, her own among them. Since then, the Hogarth Press has grown, through success, to a full-fledged publishing house with appropriate offices near the British Museum...