Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still No Map. Believing the fighting was over, some correspondents left the battle area. Almost at once Moscow charged that the Japanese had advanced afresh beyond the line they had agreed to hold. Only a few yards of blasted hummocks lay between the angry forces on Changkufeng Hill. Moscow claimed that the Japanese officers on the spot had refused to sign even a provisional map until they received further orders from Tokyo. Japanese papers fed the public with whoppers about how "our soldiers have been generously feeding the starving Soviet troops," charged that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been...
Haled into court in Milwaukee, Wis., for drunken driving, Henry Kilps walked a straight line, put his finger to his nose, pronounced hard words. But Henry Kilps's urine showed an alcoholic content of .24%. Fine...
Army Girl (Republic). Neatly directed, fast-moving action picture in which the novel theme is conflict between an army inspector (Preston Foster) and an old-line officer (H. B. Warner), engendered by plans to mechanize the latter's cavalry post...
...pressed steadily along the line he announced as he took office: "Our duty is plain. We must do everything in our power to provide as safe and as efficient a market for the nation's securities as can be devised. . . ." He ousted the firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn as Exchange lawyers, a post they had held for 60 years, because Partner Roland Redmond had been too closely identified in the public mind with Richard Whitney's fight against reform. He jammed through SEC's short-selling rule. He inaugurated a series of round-table talks with...
...merchants) to back him, battled for Federal support, broke with his partners, and died in 1863, at 37, as the road he had dreamed about for years was at last being built. For Crazy Judah-"studious, industrious, resourceful, opinionated, humorless, and extraordinarily competent"-Author Lewis has great respect. The line he surveyed across the mountains, rising 7,000 feet in less than 20 miles, was the boldest feat of railroad engineering undertaken up to that time...