Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Key dates in the secret history of Liberia for the past four months as revealed last week...
...Washington the Senate's subcommittee on trade with China prepared to release this week its recommendation for a silver loan to China. Chairman of the subcommittee is Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, famed "silver state." China is the only great power with currency on the "silver standard," and last week the Shanghai dollar (nominally worth 50 ?) continued its decline to a new low-for-all-time...
...smoky colonnade of Burlington House in Piccadilly last week bringing notables to the open ing of the great International Exhibition of Persian Art. Waiting for them inside the building were exhibits with an insured value of $30,000,000: crown jewels from the Shah, boxes of miniatures from Tur key, rugs, bronzes, ceramics and textiles from the U. S., France, Germany and 21 other nations. The show was designed to follow the great Flemish and Italian exhibitions at the Royal Academy. But there was this difference : nearly every picture in the Flemish and Italian shows was familiar by reputation...
...confess, moreover, that the introduction and maintenance of the two-hours conference system has been far from easy. It presupposes a very unusual type of professor--the sympathetic, lovable type, whom students will recognize instantly as a friend. A Phi Beta Kappa key, a Ph. D., an aptitude for research, and the authorship of half a dozen, text-books may be sufficient to qualify a man for a professorship at the ordinary college, but not at Rollins. I never call a man to Rollins unless, beyond all this, former students of his tell me that he is a human being...
...bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery), but they act so well that spectators do not have to understand French to follow the story. Best shot : the singer stimulating a crowd to sing while both men peddle their music in the street...