Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seizure [by China from Russia-(TIME, July 22)] of the Chinese Eastern Railway simply means that the Chinese no longer will stand for anything and everything foreigners may try to put over on them. There is little doubt that Soviet Russia was using the railway as a political instrument to China's detriment, and that Soviet officials of the railway were utilizing their offices as headquarters for Communist propaganda tending to undermine the authority of the Nationalist government. Documentary evidence exists to prove this. And it has not been so very long since the United States, on less provocation...
...most of the air mail carriers. But not all the expenses. Said Universal Air Lines' Halsey Dunwoody, referring to this financial situation: "We cannot continue to pay operating expenses from capital reserve. In order to produce dividends, air transport lines must pay. We operators face certain definite needs which may be enumerated as public confidence, increased patronage, constantly improving service and better practical organization...
...long, hard task. Every sale, down to the last of the year's 150,000,000 needle production, must be accounted for; every penny spent on advertising or axe-handles must be included. An army of accountants the world over must tussle for months with figures before stockholders may know what they have earned. Last week Singer's President, Sir Douglas Alexander, made public the annual report...
Dissatisfied, the returning painters formed a guild called the "Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors" and offered to decorate buildings in a true Mexican style. With Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) as mas ter they received a contract to paint murals for the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. For their motive they chose the Creation of the World, which was executed in monumental scale with figures twice lifesize. Unlike polite muralists of other countries their colors were not pastel tints but sombre browns, flashing reds and greens...
...Steinach made a cautious suggestion to experimental biologists: "One may imagine that mental undevelopment might partially be related to the insufficient secretion of natural irritants required by the central nervous system. Furthermore, it is possible that diseases of the central nervous system are psychical anomalies which may be due to the lack of this stimulating secretion. In such cases therapeutic experiments with such an excitant might be attempted...