Word: nondescript
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigate the financial and social state of the dances of which they are envious. The Jubilee, heralded by nebulous publicity throughout the first year and coming at the time when a class has attained its acme as an entity, is usually a financial success in spite of its nondescript social category. Like it, the Senior Spread comes at an advantageous time, and largely in its capacity as an entertainment for the Commencement crowd is assured of enough support to make it practicable. And, apropos a class dance, it is the question of practicability which should confront the Juniors as well...
...murder of Daniel O'Leary, one of four ganging brothers, seemed to be a retaliatory measure from Duffy headquarters. But the hearing of testimony germane to the murders gave way before the information of a stream of truck drivers, brewery bosses, alcohol dealers and other nondescript employees of what began to loom with increasing clarity as a monster liquor ring in the Philadelphia underworld...
...King Amanullah an album studded with jewels. Peering within His Majesty beheld photographs of Angora as a muddy, nondescript village, which it was in 1920, when the Young Turks set up their capital there to be out of reach of Allied War boats. Naturally the album contained other photographs. But these showed only what King Amanullah could see about him: the New Angora, a city of four, six and eight-story buildings, still raw and unlovely, yet proving that at last an Asiatic people is making swift, dynamic progress...
...that Imperial Japan will not permit Chinamen to carry on their incessant civil wars in Shantung, a Chinese province, but the home of numerous Japanese colonists. Tsinan is the capital of Shantung. From Tsinan efficient professional Japanese troops drove, last week, ten times their number of ragged, nondescript Chinese soldiery. Right or wrong, the Japanese Commander, General Fukuda, struck blow after crushing blow with a mailed fist constituted by 5,000 Japanese troops which he recently brought up from the seaport of Tsingtao (TIME, May 14). When 6,000 desperate Chinese took refuge in the old walled quarter of Tsinan...
Bolivian and Paraguayan troops glared at each other last week over a little-known, nondescript strip of borderland. They glared the more ferociously because the soil was popularly supposed to contain valu- able oil deposits. The land itself is of no agricultural value, being subject to floods at certain seasons of the year; but, for oil and other reasons, it was in dispute between the two countries. Which side of the frontier should...