Word: loing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carnegie Tech's goal line had been uncrossed all season until the opening of the second half against Purdue. Then Purdue's speedy Halfback Jim Carter received the kickoff on his own lo-ycl. line, ran it 90 yd. to a touchdown. His running-mate Duane Purvis cut loose on a "hidden ball" play for 52 yd., put the ball in position for a second touchdown. Paul Pardonner, stocky little drop-kick expert, booted an extra three points...
...blank-faced Dinner Jacket: Three more years, he thought as he crossed the polished floor to the liner's bar, he would be of age, and no more damned guardians. * * * John was cutting cordwood when the postman drove up and rattled at the tin mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess I can get by on four hundred hard money...
.../.one idea which would tie up Japan's long-range hope of cutting out of China an independent "buffer state"' between China and Manchukuo. He asked Sir Miles where was a Chinese with sufficient authority to negotiate for China. Sir Miles named the Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. Lo Wen-kan. Then he went to see Dr. Lo. To all this the Japanese Foreign Office remained lukewarm. It announced the Japanese drive might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting...
...chunky Harvard lawyer from Oyster Bay, L. I., backstopped Secretary Woodin, pointing up matters of policy for him to yes-or-no. Like a chief of staff Chicago's Jim Douglas, an erect and handsome young Princetonian (class of 1920), was on the Treasury end of telegraph wires lo the twelve Federal Reserve banks, to the 48 state banking departments, to the clearing houses of the nation. He whipped out orders faster than an army of subordinates could execute them...
Though he withholds the provincial revenues from Finance Minister Soong and does about as he pleases, able War Lord Han leaves Shantung's relations with the Great Powers and the League of Nations to Nanking Foreign Minister Lo Wen-kan who writes & receives diplomatic notes for all China...