Word: opener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...purposes of the meeting was to teach the puppets a politico-economic trick that has already been successfully employed by Japan in Manchukuo. Japan would formulate, the puppets promulgate, trade rules discriminating against other nations. Thus Japan will be able to pretend that she has not slammed the open door in China...
...blows off the Pacific. To keep the wind out at the west entrances, blue-eyed, sandy-haired Architect Ernest Weihe, fussing around with an electric fan, feathers and a cardboard model, devised "wind baffles"-a series of 80-foot vertical slabs placed like converging flys on a stage, with open passages to left and right between them. The clean monumentality of this effect was also used to set off Sculptor Ralph Stackpole's heroic-sized statue, Pacifica...
...centre in an open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side of the columns Architect Pflueger designed other open courts, surrounded by a light and trimly built structure of four-by-eight-foot plywood panels, a strong, beautiful surface, more native than stucco to forested California. About 20 nations of the Pacific, from Peru to Japan, are building more or less authentic pavilions...
...himself with his family." But stocky Bass Bryant, Second Tenor Davis and Baritone David secretly cherish ambitions to be movie stars. All used to be farmers. Last month Tenor Brown saw his first football game. Uncertain how to behave, he noticed that the other spectators all held their mouths open. So he opened his. Accidentally getting too close to a goal post, he got severely bumped, still carries a bruise or two. Says Tenor Brown: "God help a football game...
Having had the Open Door to China slammed in its face by Japan, the U. S. Government has recently tried to jimmy the lock. Fortnight ago it lent China a $25,000,000 credit for purchases of U. S. goods. Last week it extended further credit against Chinese gold held in the U. S. (see p. 16). These gestures, called "dangerous, regrettable acts" in Tokyo, made Japanese and U. S. business interests seem more than ever at cross purposes last week. Yet there was one notable spot of conciliation in this warp & woof of imperialism: Wreathed in smiles, Japanese...