Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pattern of Joy. But the drowsy peace of Lake Tai Hu was not duplicated everywhere in China-nor was the engine the only Western device to be scrapped. In Nanking, qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but vanished. On the northern shore of Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin...
...democratically worded constitution (effective May 7). The Emperor & Empress showed themselves for only five minutes, but that was long enough to get oldsters weeping. A college student expressed the new Japan, enthusiastically "democratic," yet still tied to the Emperor by fantastically exaggerated loyalty: "I consider it the greatest joy; I do not know whether I am happy most because of the constitution, or because I have seen the Emperor. I shall strive to the death for his and my country's welfare...
Like a boy with a bad report card, many a corporation was none too eager to carry home to stockholders the bad news of earnings for the first half of 1946. But last week, as third-quarter reports came out, there was many a yelp of joy. There were still some failures; but there were also a surprisingly large number of "Es" for excellent...
Cause for Joy. The steel industry, thanks to its 90% of capacity operation, got an E. Republic turned in a net for the first nine months of $9,494,414 (v. $7,973,927 for the same period last year). U.S. Steel's net was estimated at $24,138,541 for the third quarter, 73% better than the quarter before, and twice as much as last year. (For many big companies, this year's and last year's quarters were not comparable, since in 1945's third quarter many companies were reconverting.) In general, most other...
...fair appraisal of the consequences to which it could bind the future. The fear which was unashamedly felt by men now at Harvard when they faced visible and invisible death on ships, in planes and in foxholes; the fear that they went out, grimly and with little joy, to meet and master...