Word: metropolises
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To keep on calling such operations "frontier clashes" was fantastic. But neither Russia nor Japan wants open war. Both prefer to fight a little at a time as convenient. Chinese, whose air force today consists largely of Soviet-built planes, credited Russia with creating a diversion which last week led...
In the south, completely undefended Canton reeked with gore and horror as the Japanese, day after day, bombed the vast metropolis from which not so much as a rusty Chinese musket cracked against them last week. Nauseated newshawks tied handkerchiefs soaked in deodorants across their faces as they prowled about...
"Little Poison" is Paul Runyan, who learned his golf in Hot Springs, Ark., teaches it at White Plains's Metropolis Club and never ceases to concentrate on it in tournament play. Ever since 1934, when he defeated his onetime boss, slugging Craig Wood, in the final of the P...
Almost as Mr. Broun spoke, in San Francisco, only metropolis where all daily newspapers have a city-wide Guild contract, publishers abruptly ended prolonged negotiations for a new contract. Having gained important wage & hour concessions, the Guild voted 243-to-22 to accept a new agreement shorn of "Guild shop...
Megalopolis is Author Mumford's word for the 20th Century city. In its analysis he uses the Mendelian classification of biological traits into dominants and recessives, adds two other categories: survivals and mutations. In Rome the Christian Church was a mutation, in the medieval city a dominant, in the...