Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until last week Li Ching-yun. In China where Age means something he was a great man. By his own story he was born in 1736, had lived 197 years. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria gathering herbs. He continued to gather herbs for the rest of his first 100 years. He lived on herbs and plenty of rice wine. When asked for his secret of long life. Li Ching-yun gave it readily: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon...
...command, with more care than most would be bothered to employ, Author Aiken's second novel is a distinct addition to U. S. letters. In any list of ten best U. S. novels of the year, Great Circle would have to have a place. Hero Andrew ("One-Eye") Gather is not prepossessing at first sight. A private tutor in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard graduate, intellectual in his late 30's, with a glass eye (unexplained), an increasingly unhappy marriage and a correspondingly increasing tendency to drunkenness, he has in his cosmos not only too much ego but too much...
...which President Roosevelt has drawn heavily. Also 36, he is smooth, polished, clever. The job of the sub-experts was to nail down indisputable facts with the foreign experts and pass their composite work along to the White House. What was the world silver situation? Dr. Moley & colleagues would gather all available silver data, march into a conference room at the State Department, sit down around a table with a corps of British experts. They would compare their statistics, debate discrepancies, argue unknown quantities and agree on a set of figures about silver which both the President and Prime Minister...
...near future will certainly see a Japan capitalizing on her military hegemony and striking out unscrupulously for every sort of commercial advantage in the East, stimulated by her nascent nationalism. It is a position of gather ye rosebuds while ye may,' with Russia playing a waiting game along on the sidelines and China serving as the carcass to be spliced up, but at most, all that can be expected of the Russian resistance to Japanese aggression is a vigorous open denunciation before the other powers, accompanied by the usual subversive, calumniatory propaganda...
...Liberal Club to condemn Hitler's "All Fools" German Regime, that the CRIMSON, with characteristic puerility attempted to disparage the recent protest meeting in the Scottsboro and Mooney cases by such a distortion of the events of the meeting, that, unless one read the article closely, one would gather from the biased and doltish headlines "Arguments Break Out at Meeting of Liberals," that the main event of the meeting was the occurrence of friction within the club. This is simply not the truth, but a petty, inexcusable distortion of the facts which gives the impartial reader the impression that some...