Word: mays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers have thought that his Eastern interests could best be served by keeping Japan in a more or less permanent death-clinch with China. But on Russia's West a policy of friendship has lately done great things for Joseph Stalin's ego, area, attitude; and he may well have decided to train grins rather than guns on Japan as well. If he has, the last words of the last chapter of the story of free China were last week being written...
...Socks reaching just below the knee, launched as a successor to ubiquitous ankle socks, have not caught on, although cold weather may bring them out. A Chicago girl wearing them was stared at. Wellesley finds them "very unflattering to legs...
...Good evening, men," Whitsitt may say, "tonight's feature story is headed: 'Thirteen incorrigibles shipped to Siberian stir.' " Siberia, in Michigan stir talk, is Marquette prison. Other items may have a warmer touch. Prisoner So-and-so lost a picture of his wife in the textile factory. Reward for its return: two packs of cigarets. Prisoner Such-and-such will swap a pair of $12 shoes, which don't fit him, for 16 packs of cigarets. Whitsitt used to broadcast complaints and comments on prison regimen, too, but nowadays he has to stick to straight news...
...Britain may take good heart from the American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with its intolerance and brutality," cried Winston Churchill month ago. Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter...
...middle ear caused by a pressure difference between the air in the [ear] cavity and that of the surrounding atmosphere. It ... occurs during changes of altitude," starts as a "hissing, roaring, crackling, or snapping," soon leads to warm pain and vertigo, often deafness. Yawning, shouting or singing may help to equalize the pressure. Treatment is the same as for ordinary earache: dry heat and a cotton plug...