Word: goode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good collection" of Mother Goose...
...confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their colors, looted indiscriminately. Hundreds of refugees who straggled into the larger Manchurian towns and Harbin, the capital, had been robbed of all their possessions by Chinese, not Soviet troops. Some were stark naked, plucked to the skin. As usual, a good many fingers had been cut off by Chinese soldiers impatient to snatch rings from old people with rheumatic knuckles...
...voices to differ with them. Authoritative among such voices was that of Walter N. Kahn, agile, dark president of the American Diamond Cutters Manufacturers Association, envoy from them to the U. S. Senate Finance Committee. Master diamond cutter is Mr. Kahn, able to instruct his many workmen to such good effect that diamonds cleave well, cut well, in trade parlance "run" well for him. Mr. Kahn blamed the unsettled state of the diamond tariff (TIME, Aug. 26). Ably he pointed to the gradual slump in buying since last summer, due to the retail hope for lower schedules. Happily he pointed...
Every architect knows, and most of them admire, the strong, stark, massive group of reinforced concrete warehouses that form a good part of the Bush Terminal. The work of Architect William Higginson, they are praised, described in many a book on industrial architecture. Fittingly enough, last week Builder Bush was elected head of a committee to assist the City of New York in formulating a new building code. His colleagues number 220, chosen by the Merchants' Association of New York to represent the public in future hearings on the building code. A city within a city is Brooklyn's great...
...with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...