Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred weary widows completed last week some seven months of funeral rites for their eccentric Lord: His Majesty Samdach Préah Bat Kampuchéa Sisowath, later King of Cambodia (TIME, Aug. 22). Because King Sisowath's little realm on the Gulf of Siam became a French protectorate in 1863, his seven-months-old corpse was honored, last week, not only by black, flat-faced, wide-mouthed Cambodians, but by French officials whose glossy, narrow-waisted clothes spelled Paris...
...Tall call boys on platforms, before stock price recording boards in brokerage offices abbreviate in order to keep up with racing tickers. Allied Chemical and Dye is cried: "Acid," Texas Gulf Sulphur "Tiger Lily," Bethlehem Steel "Betsy Steel," Southern Pacific "Soup," Standard Oil of New Jersey "John...
...been no great adventure in which he suddenly flashed before the public. He has advanced to power and responsibility through the successful repetition of an orthodox routine. And between the colorful career of ol' Cap Curtis boy and the conventional existence of Charles Curtis. Senator, there is a gulf as wide as if these two were different persons...
...when the Yellow River shifted its course among the Chinese coastal lowlands after every flood, meandering scores of miles from its previous channels. So late as 1852 its waters principally flowed into the Yellow Sea at a point some 300 miles below its present main issuance into the Gulf of Chihli. But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage canals have been dug. Even so the titanic Wet Dragon has escaped taming by Chinese methods...
...land because he owns the land, Mr. Astor discovered early the solace of the sea. Reporters cannot infest the oceans. The strain of question and answer to which a public figure is eternally subjected is particularly distasteful to the new commodore. Once, shrewdly said he: "The social gulf between Americans is not so much measured in money as in newspaper headlines...