Word: metropolises
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Three months after the Communist takeover, the once booming, bustling, bawdy metropolis is dying. Shanghai has been withered by Nationalist blockade, damaged by flood and typhoon, weakened by arrogant Red treatment of its foreign businessmen and consulates. Brisk, bald General Chen Yi, Shanghai's new Red mayor, standing on...
Shortly after they took Mukden last November, the Chinese Communists dropped their Bamboo Curtain over the U.S. consulate general in the Manchurian metropolis. Communist guards virtually imprisoned the n Americans, led by kindly, goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, within their consular compound, denied them radio facilities, branded them as...
Cell chemistry is a maddeningly complicated study. It is known that cells contain certain chemicals, but they are not mixed together haphazardly like dissolved salts in a chemist's beaker. Each cell is like a great, complex metropolis. The individual citizens (atoms) are organized into intricate groups like the...
The metropolis itself girded for siege. Along Nanking Road, through Shanghai's heart, khaki-clad troops put up wires for military phones. At the Central Police Station black-clad police cracked down on Red underground agents and others charged with troublemaking. Gaping crowds gathered to watch Shanghai's...
When the complete ad was sent to him for approval, Shaw touched up the copywriter's prose, making Dublin an "architecturally noble metropolis." And up to last week, with the ad ready to run, Copywriter Shaw had not even mentioned the matter of payment.