Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...huge commercial interests in Manchuria. In the past she has subsidized both Governor "Young Chang" Hsueh-Liang and his late, great father "Old Chang" Tso-Lin. She wants above everything to prevent the great powers from intervening in her bailiwick. Again appropriate last week was a famed cartoon, the Magnum Opus of Shanghai's North China Daily Herald. It shows a bespectacled bird which greatly resembles Prince Chichibu of Japan perching with a wink above the apple of Japanese eyes, Manchuria...
...Maius" is indeed the comparative. TIME gave the President's survey of the whole state of the union the title which Roger Bacon used for his "encyclopedia and organum of the 13th Century," and had TIME meant "great work" it would have said magnum opus, not opus magnus...
...unprecedented success of my magnum opus of last year. "The Forecast Saga, "had led to a popular clamor for a sequel, to called "The Silver Shovel." And I promised to write it, but the little woman has put her foot down. She says my life story must not appear, that she does not want to have to share me with all the world. Vainly I tried to argue that there was enough of me to go round. "If there is, " I said, "something in my story that makes young hearts beat faster, is it fair not to give...
...adoption of this definition was hailed as a magnum opus of Premier Hertzog of South Africa who alone had insisted with die-hard tenacity that the vague phrase "Dominion Status" be clarified once and for all (TIME...
...Bedecked and beribboned like a magnum of champagne...