Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the tirade was over and President Chiang had been calmed, officials close to him explained that he had been trying to rally the national patriotic spirit. Later the same day he continued "rallying" in an address to cadets of the Central Military Academy at Nanking...
During 1917-20, when the young Soviet Union was fighting for existence against White Russian Generals Kolchak and Wrangel, the spirit and energy of Comrade Vassili Constantinovitch Blücher four times won him the highest Soviet military decoration, "The Red Banner." Five years later the Soviet Government sent Comrade Blücher to Canton under the alias "General Galen." There he became military adviser to the Chinese revolutionaries who subsequently conquered all China and now constitute the Chinese Government headed by President Chiang Kaishek...
...grew up in Galveston, Tex., went to Tome School in Maryland. When he left school he wrote short stories, published few, then wrote 51 scenarios, sold the 52nd to a small producer in Texas. He directed himself in the leading role, made little money out of it. Several years later, after marrying Florence Vidor, not then famed as a cinemactress, he got his first good job writing and directing stories for General Film Co. Recently he was divorced by Florence Vidor, married Eleanor Boardman whom he directed in The Crowd...
...insulting quality of the phrase could be gauged from the rage of Mrs. Chen, who called on Editor Chan to be rate him; and from the actions, a day or so later, of eight stalwart Chinamen who visited Editor Chan's office and overturned typewriters, upset tables, smashed chairs, moved Editor Chan to swear out a war rant for Mrs. Chen's arrest...
...Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep for the pilot. In commerce similar refueling possibilities might be valuable. Planes could make ground deliveries from the airship, later catching up with her in her flight, bringing up passengers, mail...