Word: named
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questions concerning Harvard will come up in the campaign, according to Bill. He referred to Mike's motion in the City Council to change the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square and said: "I have always known where Harvard Square is and so did my grand parents, so I guess there is no need of changing the name...
Both the Chinese and the Japanese last week used the name of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei as "reason" for the renewed offensive. Chinese officials warned their own people, and Japanese officials admitted, that the new pressure was intended to intimidate, discourage, force the populace of South China into endorsement of peace under Puppet-elect Wang. But as the Chinese claimed defense of Changsha was stiffening, Japanese admitted that the creation of Wang's Super-Puppetry had been postponed from mid-October to mid-November...
Yellow-robed Je Chen, Tibet's regent until Tanchu reaches his majority at 18, greeted the reincarnated pontiff with due ceremony. From a golden bowl the regent drew one of numerous bamboo slips which, if a proper choice had been made, would bear the name of the new Dalai Lama. Sure enough, it bore Tanchu's. This ritual the visiting Chinese watched contentedly. By establishing a Chinese as Dalai Lama they had, for what it was worth, underscored the influence China has long claimed over chill, far, out-of-the-world Tibet...
Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...
...take long for the magazine-reading public to hear about the young Greenwich Villager who let her hair flow to her shoulders when others chopped theirs off at the nape. Her unforgettable name, unconventional personality and well-educated way with words constituted a triple threat against critical judgment; and nothing that anybody could say for or against her work could help or hinder her being popularly acclaimed the champion U. S. poetess...