Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conditions were appalling." reported Mr. Lo. "Consider that for nearly three years the important trade routes between Sinkiang and ourselves were cut off by disturbed conditions. Consequently practically all of Sinkiang's exportable output was routed to the only remaining outlet- the Soviet Union...
...equal to every demand, be it lusty humour or Henry's regal kind of lechery, and he has made Henry, although a buffoon, a superbly consistent and human one. No comic possibility of the Tudor coarseness has been left unexplored, no detail in palatial decor neglected, no outlet for photographic ingenuity closed...
...smash chins and football lines while not indulging his other animalisms too much to spoil the main chance, gets him into a good college, into Wall Street, big money, a sound marriage. A mixup with a girl to whom he turns not for sex but, more subtly, as an outlet for his vulgarity, leads to divorce, dissipation, bankruptcy. And then the muscular, go-getting, self-preservative qualities of Johnny Green come into play again. Through a rich but sallow girl whom he never quite wrongs, he climbs up again, richer than ever, politically popular, a grinning, driving top-dog with...
...well known to be overcrowded in their Empire, it occurred to the Very Reverend Dean that the 3,000 Australians might make room for at least a few Japanese. Speaking diffidently at Guildford, puttering Dean Johnson said: "I have great sympathy with Japan, a vast industrial country seeking an outlet for her population and still more for her goods. She sees so much empty land; the United States struck me as an empty country and so did Australia. I should like to have seen a great English gesture-and I know it is rank heresy-in presenting to Japan that...
...years, penetrating slowly into undisputed Paraguayan Zone recognized as such by treaties signed by themselves, by U. S. and by the Argentine Republic. Bolivia has never cultivated or owned an inch of ground in that region. Bolivian authorities' object in claiming Chaco is only apparently obtention of outlet on river Paraguay -real object being political-for party preponderance. Former Bolivian Presidents confessed repeatedly, their country had no title or rights to Chaco. Paraguay does want peace, but will as little consent sharing Chaco with turbulent neighbor, as any householder would consent sharing his plate and belongings with housebreaker. Chaco...