Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maritime Customs. Most of the import duties of China are collected and administered by foreigners, chiefly British. Since these revenues are needed to pay the interest on China's foreign loans, it was thought unwise to abandon them to the graft-ridden officialdom of the old Em- pire. Pseudo-Republican China resents this stricture on its sover- eignty...
Germany has established an import licensing system, which in practice almost entirely excludes U. S. and other outside manufacturers. In Great Britain there are no such restrictions and the radio has already achieved great popularity. There are already 1,200,000 receiving sets. In this respect, England ranks second only...
Renewal memoranda enclosed. Was about to write you in any case. Herewith is an advertisement (by the Dictograph Products Corporation) clipped from TIME, issue of Feb. 23. I believe you believe in truth in advertising. Could anything be more contrary to actual facts than the import of the following quotations taken from the advertisement...
...decorous college graduate he, but a "sandlot" player, a man of fiery mettle. Often-ihc bleachers, true to the tradition of U. S. sportsmanship, have risen in enthusiastic uproar while Cobb stood shoving his jaw-fare nearer and nearer to an umpire's quivering countenance, uttering words whose import could only be guessed by his furious gestures. He, who has rightly been called "the greatest player in baseball," declares that this season will be his last...
Consider, too, the sociological import of such an event. The working man may abandon overalls in favor of riding breeches, after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York...