Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday the Ambassador smiled suddenly, and died...
Often called "the foremost Chinese thinker of today" is Hu Shih, for nine years Professor of Philosophy at Peking University, and later Dean of the English Department, the first Chinese to write poetry in the spoken vernacular, vigorous editor for many a moon of the slightly radical Chinese weekly Endeavor, and frequently mentioned as likely to accept this portfolio or that in the Chinese Nationalist Government...
...Race riot." Another said animals quartered nearby for a circus had escaped. Another, seeing smoke from a photographer's flashlight, said: "Fire." The 10,000 spectators sought exits, not calmly. Many were trampled. One man, who fell or was pushed over the balcony ledge to the floor below, later died. Sportswriters hid under the ring. Police finally restored order and the bout went on. Fields won the decision...
...women, tattooed men and bearded women, ordinary men and ordinary women. The train has come from Sarasota, Fla., where all winter the Circus has hibernated like the strange animal it is. It has arrived in The Bronx, northernmost borough of New York. A day or two later it is quartered in a huge new coliseum. The crowd has gathered. The boys are selling pink drink. There is a hush. Alfred Emanuel Smith mounts a chair, blows a gold whistle. All the men and women who have piled off the train in the dusk parade, but are now transformed. They wear...
...nine-year career has been both breathless and bewildering. In 1921. it was a Morgan-weaned youngster with the Cuban and Porto Rican telephone systems in its pocket. In 1924, it branched suddenly and surprisingly into Spain, began modernizing a hopelessly antiquated telephone system. Four years later it had added a vast manufacturing unit (International Standard Electric Corp.); two cable companies (All-American Cables, Inc., Commercial Cable Co.); a telegraph company (Postal Telegraph and Cable Corp.); a radio company (Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.). It had invaded five states (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay) of Latin America. Last week, unnoticed...