Word: lin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING - Lin Yutang - Reynal & Hitchcock...
...these ephemeral favorites are carefully checked. According to mysterious fluctuations in the public taste, books rise and fall in popularity: Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People drops below Van Loon's The Arts one week, rises above it the next, then falls below Lin Yutang's The Importance of Living...
...IMPORTANCE OF LIVING - Lin -Reynal & Hitchcock...
Hankow, "The Chicago of China," to which much of the Government moved before the fall of Nanking, was busy last week with the work of sending more & more Government paraphernalia on upriver to Chungking, where figurehead Chinese President Lin Sen established himself directly after he left Nanking. Japanese planes bombed several Yangtze River cities between Nanking and Hankow last week, dropped leaflets in Wuchang across the river from Hankow reading: "Chinese! Your Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is a beaten wolf. He is at the end of his rope...
...nearly half a century William Vincent Astor, biggest, richest U. S. landlord, friend and fellow-fisherman of Frank-lin Roosevelt, has tinkered with trains- toy and real. On his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront...