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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings are of even more interest. There are two which form a series, the first being called "Twenty Pounds Too Much." This shows an enormously fat, repulsive woman in a luxurious boudoir being massaged by a main. The second, "Twenty Pounds Too Little," pictures a woman, who, from lack of food, has become almost a skeleton, lying on a bare mattress in an underground squalid room, while sitting about her are her husband and little son. On a table by the bed are two empty food bowls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

Dessye, Ethiopia's main headquarters for its northern defense forces, is 150 miles from Makale and half way to Addis Ababa. There until last week stayed thin-faced big-eyed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan at the head of 10,000 well equipped warriors. Suddenly he stepped from an airplane at Addis Ababa, to be warmly greeted by his father the Emperor and hustled off to the palace. There he would rule, courtiers said, on behalf of Haile Selassie when and if the Emperor goes to the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FRONT: Gugsa Makes Good | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...SPANISH MAIN : Focus or ENVY - Philip Ainsworth Means- Scribner ($3). Originally "The Spanish Main" meant the mainland of North and South America controlled by Spain. Eventually it came to be associated with "not only the central and crucial part of the Spanish, empire," but also with the vast sweep of ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquerors & Colonizers | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Main speaker of the day, Sir Norman Angell, British economist, talked little upon the proposed subject of the meeting, "Shall the United States Forbid All Exports to Italy?" but veered off to a campaign speech on why all the nations of the world, in effect, the United States should join the League. He entreated that "in international problems, power should be transferred from the litigant to the law. Pledge your support to the law of civilization, not to the litigant. This is anarchy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRAGUE, HOPPER URGE A NEW FOREIGN POLICY | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Norman Angell. British cross mist and Nobel Peace Prize winner will be the main speaker at the score meeting of the Foreign Policy Association in the Copley-Plaza at 1 o'clock today. Bruce C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government, and Oliver Sprague '94. professor of Banking as Finance in the Business School was also present their views on the collective subject: "Shall the United State Forbid All Exports to Italy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norman Angell Will Speak At F. P. A. Meeting Today | 11/16/1935 | See Source »

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