Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soong, China's No. 1 financier. Down to meet them swooped from the interior their common brother-in-law. Generalissimo Chiang. A minor problem first to be disposed of was the abrupt resignation 'of Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei and several lesser members of the Cabinet. Moon-faced Mr. Wang resigned "because of poor health," the others "in sympathy with Mr. Wang." Politicians, they were getting out in advance of the coming Kuomintang (National People's Party) Congress which promises to erupt with indignation against the Government's unparalleled series of surrenders to Japan (TIME, June...
Today alphabetical rotation has made brilliant, moon-faced Comrade Litvinoff the League Council's President. Last week he and Benito Mussolini fenced with pussywillows...
...help be sorry for them. For once they were discontent with domesticity. The boundary of their world had suddenly grown larger than the barn lot, the grove, the garden and the orchard. Somewhere far to the south waited a wide, gray marshland, pale and misty under the warm southern moon-waited the winter haven for all the web-footed creatures...
...tidal theory is behind the method worked out by Reuben Greenspan. Last month he told a newshawk that a conjunction of the moon and the planet Jupiter seemed to indicate earth disturbances "in islands northeast of Australia" for July 11 and 12. Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...
...started on the Register & Tribune as a plain reporter. He still asks questions wherever he goes, on his frequent visits to Manhattan and Washington. No corn-fed bumpkin, no dallying rich-man's-son. inquisitive John Cowles has stored behind his thick-lensed glasses and his moon face a wealth of essential fact. An excellence of perspective on top of a sound judgment makes him one of the most important young newspaper publishers in the land...