Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genuine desire for peace [on the part of Mr. Stimson] might have prompted him [to act] much earlier, even the first week after the Chinese broke the letter and the spirit of the Kellogg Pact by violent and unauthorized seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and arbitrary measures against Soviet citizens" (TIME, July...
This is considered an easy theme, much easier than that of two years ago-"THE COLORING OF THE MOUNTAIN BECOMES MORE BRILLIANT"-a stumper which proved difficult to get into the requisite tanka form of 31 syllables, in lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables (TIME...
...breath-taking perspectives and powerful light effects. Practical critics observe that the scheme is ephemeral and utilizes such tricks as leaving out windows which, if represented, would convey the proper scale and give a realistic effect to Architect Ferriss's momentous masses, but would make these masses seem much less momentous and startlingly visionary. The drawings are accompanied by a lyrical text which breaks out into blank verse at times and ends with an epilog-The City Could Be Made in the Image of Man Who is Made in the Image...
...with that of the mother ship. Of every 100 Chris-Craft boats turned out in Algonac, 13 are destined to zoom over foreign waters. Scandinavians use them as a means of commuting among the fjords and inlets. Many are shipped to Australia. The only practical means of travel in much of the South American tropical zone is the network of jungle waterways. Colombian explorers and the Ford rubber plantations in Brazil use Chris-Craft sedans. While Chris Smith chews and whittles in the Algonac postoffice, his boats are being sold by dealers all over...
...tired of jazz, wants melody. Its President Edwin Claude Mills† last week said: "We are not interested in 'reform.' We are not trying to get ourselves into such a rarified atmosphere that nobody could live in it with us. . . . We have had perhaps too much of jazz and it seems about time for some one to assume leadership in a movement away from the cacophony of most music of the day. I think we should get back to melody...