Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some civil agitators known for a long time to the authorities as men without scruple or worth, organized a ridiculous plot against the form of the state without causing the least disorder...
With a suddenness that jolted the world from its hopes for peace in war-torn China, pygmy President Chiang-Kai-shek, who conquered all China in three years, seized Manchuria's 250-million-dollar Chinese Eastern Railway, 1,179 miles long, which belies its name by belonging to Soviet Russia. Seized and packed post haste from Harbin, headquarters of the C. E. R., were 174 Soviet railway officials and! employes. They scuttled north, minus their belongings, into Siberia. General Manager A. I. Emshanov who had refused the peremptory request of Lu-Yung-hwang, President of the C. E. R. directorate...
...their competitive plans they are not without competition from others. On the east coast there are the long and well fixed Condor Air Lines and the Campagnie Generate Aeropostale. Condor is German-owned, a subsidiary of the German-subsidized Luft Hansa, strongest aviation concern of Middle Europe if not of all Europe. Condor does a good mail and passenger service between Asuncion, Para guay, Buenos Aires and Para, Brazil. Competing is Aeropostale, French-subsidized. Its main purpose is to rush mail from Buenos Aires to Natal, Brazil, whence fast ships rush the sacks across the Atlantic to Dakar, Senegal...
...Gauvreau explained: "It probably won't be long before I'll become editor of another New York newspaper. I hope so, anyway. I have no intention of retiring at the age of 37. I resigned from the Graphic because I disagreed heartily with Mr. Macfadden on vital and essential matters of policies, not only of his newspaper but of his other publications as well. I would never work for Mr. Macfadden again under any circumstances...
...dress, as to our religious beliefs or as to what we may or may not read." In an exhortation which without his rising preamble might have sounded crass at an American Medical Convention, he cried: "This is no longer republican government. It is tyranny. In the long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land. The loudest echo came from Clarence True Wilson, 57, Ph. B., LL. D., general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public...