Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft. It shot down one of the pursuing planes on the Manchukuo-Soviet border, was itself shot down by other Ogpu planes. The eight Soviet officers were killed in the crash. Yominri, the third largest Tokyo paper, spends much time slyly baiting Japan's dominant militarist clique, is considered radical by the Militarists...
...last week 14 students of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute roved with studied aimlessness through the city of Troy, N. Y. Everywhere they went they collected pennies from shopkeepers and gasoline station attendants for a "penny-ante poker game." Other students marched in to Troy's four commercial banks, flourished paper currency, demanded change-in pennies. In one bank the manager reluctantly dumped 100,000 pennies into canvas bags, turned them over to students for $1,000 in bills.* A laundry truck driver toured the city collecting pennies from housewives. Unaware of this concerted raid until too late, merchants, housewives...
Next day a large part of Rensselaer's 1,400 students toted their canvas and paper bags into town, proceeded to give merchants another bad day. One student bought a $50 suit, banged down five pounds of pennies in part payment...
Four Mennonite bishops sat facing the congregation. One of them took seven Bibles, slipped a paper marker into each, put the Bibles on the pulpit. Seven men, chosen by the congregation, came forward, took the Bibles and returned to their seats. All this was in accordance with Proverbs 16:33, The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. The seven men with their scriptures walked back to the pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free...
...suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena's ears. But such talk is only between Junior and his wife. Publicly they hold their tongues, not wishing to wreck the paper...