Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dusk came, but no Japanese bombers, the dugouts emptied. For months Chungking merchants have done their business late in the afternoon, opening shop at 4 p. m., in order to limit the danger from air raids. That night the life of the old grey-walled city, last capital of the Mings 300 years ago, third capital of Chiang Kaishek, again got back to a sort of wartime normal. Crowds swarmed down Dujugai, main street of a city that has grown from 635,000 to an estimated 2,000,000 in six months. Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas...
...search of some common bond in an era when compulsory courses had already disappeared that President Lowell projected the House system in order that men of diverse interests might meet across the dinner table and commune. And it was in search of what he called "the principle that is needed to unify our liberal arts tradition" that President Conant three years ago wistfully suggested that "it would be desirable for every college graduate to have a knowledge of the cultural history of the United States in the broadest sense of the term...
Electric Animals. Anatomist Harold Saxton Burr of Yale last week showed motion pictures of himself spinning an embryo salamander on a turntable. He was not spinning it in order to make the unborn salamander dizzy - but to show that its tiny body possessed a sort of electrical shadow, that it could be used like a piece of electrical apparatus. The spinning salamander induced a feeble electric current in a wire, just as a big steam generator creates a big current...
...Mail Order. Another pair of high earn ers were Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward. Both mail-order houses now obtain 50 to 60% of their sales as department stores. Although department store sales in general are running barely ahead of last year, chain groceries about 5% higher, Sears and Montgomery Ward were 20% ahead of 1938 in April. On this increase in volume, Sears' Chairman Robert E. Wood (who plays along with the New Deal) estimates his company will more than double the $7,000,000 profits earned in the 1938 first quarter; Montgomery Ward's Chairman Sewell...
...been attributed to the fact that Japan has restricted cotton (and partially restricted wool and rayon) to army use only. But Japanese production of finished silk goods has declined, suggesting that Japanese: 1) may be hoarding silk as a hedge against inflation, or 2) deliberately creating a shortage in order to boost prices and make a killing before new synthetic silks start to compete in the U. S. market...