Word: outward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago war between Japan and the Soviet was regarded as inevitable in the near future and likely to occur in 1935; but since that time a profound and far-reaching change has supposedly taken place in Japanese foreign policy. The outward sign of this is the retirement of General Araki as Minister of War and his replacement by a man, who, in all likelihood, will confine himself to the army and make no attempt to interfere in purely political problems. Japan from now on, according to Premier Saito and Foreign Minister Hirota, will pursue a pacific foreign policy...
Widow Jennie Smith's four youngsters, aged 9 to 16, and 35 other Florida farm children were packed in their school bus when it reached the end of its outward route one morning last week. There one pupil's parent had built a special turnaround, so the bus would not have to cross the Atlantic Coast Line tracks on its way back to Crescent City's elementary school. But the morning was so foggy that D. R. Niles, the 65-year-old bus driver, kept to the road. He had just put the bus's front...
There will be no outward display or procession. The attendants will gather informally in the Faculty Room after arriving individually. The committee which arranged the installation consists of George R. Agassiz '84, President of the Board of Overseers; Thomas N. Perkins '91, senior member of the Corporation; and Phillip P. Chase '99, the University Marshal...
...Villiers calls "the best sailor in the world": Finnish Captain Ruben de Cloux, 48, 35 years in sail, 18 years in the Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around. Outward bound for Australia after the 1929 grain race, he was sailing the barque Herzogin Cecilie when she rolled over on her beam ends. He managed to right her and sail on. In the 1932 race he sailed the Parma through Horn hurricanes, South Atlantic ice and North Atlantic calm into Falmouth...
...guest houses'"-Casa del Mar, Casa del Monte, Casa del Sol. Hard by these are enchanted gardens, marble swimming pools, a zoo complete with lion, leopard, bear, elephant, chimpanzee. On the hillside roam bison, zebra, kangaroo, giraffe, llama, antelope, the emu and the gnu. These are but outward show. Within the palace portals is a treasury of Art that brings the value of their new-found home to $15,000,000: a Great Hall, where 150 trenchermen may dine on 16th Century refectory boards beneath the festal banners of Siena; six Gobelin tapestries which cost $575,000; carved ancient...