Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sleeping under paper umbrellas, and dumping the wounded in pits with the dead, the relentless forces of the Chinese Nationalist army on their northern trek, have provoked the inevitable conflict with Japan. Because this advance endangered the rich Japanese province of Manchuria, and because the Nationalist government is bitterly anti-foreign, such an outbreak has been long foreseen; and because the rivalry which underlies it is basic, the settling agencies are likely to be quilted coolies with machine guns rather than occidentalized diplomats...
...York will turn out with all the fireboats and miles of paper streamers to greet him. That most skilled of welcomers, Mayor Walker, will offer him the keys to the city and he will find more of his countrymen on its streets than there are in his own capital. He will lecture on Rumanian politics and people will applaud him. He will attend dinners and be lionized. He will intrigue to his heart's content and no one will say him may until he has lived here for a while. Then he will decide that there is no reason...
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...succeed Col. White, President Coolidge nominated for promotion Assistant Treasurer H. Theodore Tate, another Tennesseean. Figuratively speaking, Mr. Tate picked up the pen laid down by Col. White and upon a large white sheet of paper executed his own autograph in huge script. The signature was sent to the photo-engraver to be reduced and reproduced upon new Federal currency. Mr. Tate would not let people see how he had signed his name until after his confirmation by the Senate...
...newspaper of the preparatory school can be expected to follow the path of the college paper in external and internal development will be determined by the single leash of time. It is doubtful, for instance, if the secondary school journalist would be wise in taking a book supplement upon his hands. The checkrein is tightening on extra-curricular activity all through the educational system and what is possible to the divided interests of a large college staff may be less feasible where the burden is less distributed...