Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waste of breath would be to rehearse the villainy of Chang, his cupidity, his habit of snatching concubines out of perfectly nice Chinese families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July 2), Marshal Chang Tsung-chang bled the people to ruin and starvation with outrageous taxes before he was driven out and forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band...
...said that she, like her radical Congressman father, is opposed to "the system which has fostered the present great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small per cent of the population." That was the big news: the fact that there is actually alive a child of the late Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. who opposes what he called the Money Trust! That was the electric, potent shock which set editors editing, rotos rotating...
...Beloit, Wis., heirs of the late Mrs. Erne Gunderson found her large home packed with 50 house dresses, 30 pairs of shoes, unhung pictures, linen, scarfs, table and kitchenware, all unused. Explanation: Mrs. Gunderson, long poor and suddenly come into money, bought everything for which all her life she had wished to shop...
...Medical students study this prayer, along with the "Oath of Hippocrates" and its spirit has guided their practice. Scholars have long sought its Hebrew or Arabic original. Last week they were chagrined to learn that they had overlooked a report published in the American Israelite 21 years ago. The late G. Deutsch, doctor of philosophy, then wrote: "The Prayer of Maimonides, so called, was written neither by Maimonides nor by any other medieval physician. It is the work in good faith of a modern Jewish doctor, Marcus Hertz of Berlin (1747-1803), the friend and physician of Moses Mendelssohn...
...Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home. One day, the two boys quarreled about who should carry the heaviest pail. Neither would give in, both walked home emptyhanded. Spanked, therefore, and sent back for the milk...